How to display Chinese characters properly in PDF reports?

Hi!
We encountered this bug and reported it to OpenERP.

We installed a new database with some standard modules, and used the Chinese Chart of Accounts settings.

Afterwards, the Chart fo Accounts looks like this:
http://img808.imageshack.us/i/chinesecharacterrubbish.jpg/

Chinese characters are properly displayed e.g. in partner names.

In Greece, we definitely use utf-8 characters for the chart of accounts and other data. So far, I can verify that utf-8 gets properly handled in those cases.

Hello,
It's absolutely working fine in gtk. see the attached .png
I confirm printing of reports does not support the chinese characters.
So I am assigning the bug to the correct project and team.

Thanks

Can we have a little more information, again, on this bug?
Does it occur in some client, Gtk, web? on reports?

Note that the screenshot referenced above may be the result of the *client system*, like a badly configured web-browser. In that case, the bug would just be invalid.

So far, unicode support seems fine.

Hello xrg,

From the screenshot provided in comment # 1 seems that the problem is in printing reports.

Thanks,

The problem describe in comment #1 is due to the transcoding problem in the module l10n_chart_cn. (see bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/625019).

OpenERP also has another problem when printing report with Chinese character , it produces gibberish fonts.

We Chinese team tackled these two major character coding problems long time ago in our project repository. (http://code.google.com/p/openerp-community-addons/downloads/list),

We will submit these modules to official branch soon after some more test.

(Sorry for the status spam, was trying to convert to a question but Launchpad crashes.. happens for bugs with a too long history = bug 438116)

@digitalsatori: I understand why you marked this bug a duplicate of bug 625019, but I would like to make them separate, just to be sure that people find this one easily as well.
Indeed the issue in comment #1 is just a bad encoding in the old l10n_chart_cn modules in extra-addons (5.0 and 6.0), and people can instead use the modules on your googlecode project, or simply the new chart of accounts "l10n_cn" that was merged and is directly included in OpenERP 6.0 official addons.

But this bug also discusses the issue of chinese characters in PDF reports, which is really just a problem of fonts. Basically for chinese-speaking countries, you need to tell the report engine to use chinese fonts in the PDFs, as the default international fonts do not have support for chinese characters. A possible solution is to install the base_report_cn module that you created, similar to the base_report_unicode module from Gábor Dukai: http://bit.ly/g5vIPp

Perhaps you could also add your base_report_cn module in the extra-addons if it is correctly tested now, to help others find it more easily?