Hi,
I am curious to know what is the most common approach to remove non-ascii and to encode special characters to make PDF export work properly?
The matter is I have separate processing of client-side and server-side grids: changing text, cutting something with regexp, etc.
So, using
item[column].Text = HttpContext.Current.Server.Encode(item[column].Text)
in dozen of places of ItemDataBound event is not very comfortable. Besides, this Encode method does not help with non-ascii characters, for them I have to use
I am curious to know what is the most common approach to remove non-ascii and to encode special characters to make PDF export work properly?
The matter is I have separate processing of client-side and server-side grids: changing text, cutting something with regexp, etc.
So, using
item[column].Text = HttpContext.Current.Server.Encode(item[column].Text)
in dozen of places of ItemDataBound event is not very comfortable. Besides, this Encode method does not help with non-ascii characters, for them I have to use
Regex.Replace(description.ToString(), @"[^\u001F-\u007F]", string.Empty)
I would prefer something like PdfExporting event and replace e.RawHTML. But it's tricky, cause I need to replace cell content,
not HTML tags...
Br-r-r, looks too clumsy.
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Hello Alexander,
I have already answered your support ticket and I will apply the answer here as well if somebody else have a similar requirement.
"Note that RadGrid's Pdf exporting engine supports an Unicode encoding. You could set a font to DefaultFontFamily property which contains all Unicode characters and this way the special characters will be represented into the exported file. Such common international font is Arial Unicode MS."
Regards,
Kostadin
Telerik
I have already answered your support ticket and I will apply the answer here as well if somebody else have a similar requirement.
"Note that RadGrid's Pdf exporting engine supports an Unicode encoding. You could set a font to DefaultFontFamily property which contains all Unicode characters and this way the special characters will be represented into the exported file. Such common international font is Arial Unicode MS."
<ExportSettings> <Pdf DefaultFontFamily="Arial Unicode MS" /></ExportSettings>Regards,
Kostadin
Telerik
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