I'm trying to export to PDF a string containing UTF-8 characters. I have reduced my code to the following code to be able to reproduce it:
source = """<html>
<style>
@font-face {
font-family: Preeti;
src: url("preeti.ttf");
}
body {
font-family: Preeti;
}
</style>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
This is a test <br/>
सरल
</body>
</html>"""
from xhtml2pdf import pisa
from io import StringIO, BytesIO
bytes_result = BytesIO()
pisa.CreatePDF(source, bytes_result, encoding='UTF-8')
result = StringIO(bytes_result.getvalue().decode('UTF-8', 'ignore'))
f = open('test.pdf', 'wt', encoding='utf-8')
f.write(result.getvalue())
Which produces the following PDF:
I have tried a ton of solutions from the internet but I cannot get it right. Any idea what am I missing?