# Ruport, not english charset

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruport-not-english-charset/111256>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 4, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruport-not-english-charset/111256 "2007-08-04T13:39:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruport-not-english-charset/111256/1 "2007-08-04T13:39:04Z")

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Hi all,

Anybody knows how to change a font/charset of generated PDF-file by  
ruport, or myabe there are some other pluging to generate reports with  
support of UTF charsets?

Tnx

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**Author:** ![demoversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@demoversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/demoversion)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruport-not-english-charset/111256/2 "2007-08-05T17:36:14Z")

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On Aug 4, 7:39 am, “Igor K.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Anybody knows how to change a font/charset of generated PDF-file byruport, or myabe there are some other pluging to generate reports with  
> support of UTF charsets?

Hi, Ruport uses PDF::Writer for its base library, so that means our  
UTF support is nonexistent. :-/  
However, there are a couple folks looking to write plugins to wrape  
FPDF as well as RCairo, you might sign up on the ruport-dev list if  
you’re interested in helping out with that:

[http://groups.google.com/group/ruport-dev](http://groups.google.com/group/ruport-dev)

-greg