Reportlab pdf encoding

Question

I want to write some Turkish character to pdf with reportlab. i used fallowing code to do this.

c = Canvas("test.pdf")  
data="ğçİöşü"
p = Paragraph(data.decode('utf-8'), style=styNormal)

but it doesn’t show my data at pdf.

ouput: ■ç■ö■ü

Answer 1

As explained in this answer to a similar question, you need to use a font which supports your characters.

In short, try this:

pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Verdana', 'Verdana.ttf'))
c.setFont("Verdana", 8)