Is there a way to generate pdf containing non-ascii symbols with pisa from django template?

Question

I\'m trying to generate a pdf from template using this snippet:

def write_pdf(template_src, context_dict):
    template = get_template(template_src)
    context          


        

Answer 1

I am using xhtml2pdf version 0.2.4 I faced the same issue and I was able to resolve using this encoding:

def render_to_pdf(template_src, context_dict={}):
    template = get_template(template_src)
    html = template.render(context_dict)
    result = BytesIO()

    # PDF
    pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(BytesIO(html.encode("utf-8")), result)
    if not pdf.err:
        return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), content_type='application/pdf')
    return None

Then in my views, I have defined like:

def download_pdf(request, pk):
item = get_object_or_404(object, id=pk)
if item:
    context ={
        'item': item
    }
    template_name = 'template.html'
    pdf = render_to_pdf(template_name, context)
    return HttpResponse(pdf, content_type='application/pdf')

else:
    messages.info(request, 'Item not found')
    return redirect('home')

My HTML:

{% load static %}
{% load humanize %}