codeforamerica / pdfhook

A Python web application for converting PDF forms into PDF-filling APIs
https://pdfhook.herokuapp.com
MIT License
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Support unicode values for text fields #55

Open bengolder opened 8 years ago

bengolder commented 8 years ago

pdftk’s support for unicode is unclear. Some attempts to pass unicode into form field values failed, but the possibility has not been thoroughly tested. To support unicode, we may need to explore different encoding techniques.

If pdftk cannot handle any encoding of unicode characters, we may need to substitute something else for pdftk in order to support unicode.