Unicode, LabVIEW and PDF Report

[J-M]

I am able to write Unicode (UT-16) characters in a PDF document (PDF report) with LabVIEW, but this is laborious. I try to find an easiest way.  

I don’t want to enable the Unicode support with "UseUnicode=True" in the LabVIEW.ini (because too many weird things happen).

Here are the steps:

1) If I want to use Unicode, I write the text in Notepad, and I save with the encoding Unicode.

2) I have a VI who read this text file, remove the BOM (xFFFE) and write the rest of the content in a string.

3) I copy this string in a string of the PDF Report.

4) I do the conversion, of the string, to an array of U16.

5) I generate an Unicode string with the .net constructor “mscorlib(2.0.0.0).system.string”

6) I write this Unicode string in the PDF Report.

It works well (see the attachment), but the steps 1 to 3 are laborious.  I try to find another way, but I have no idea.

[User002]

Here are a couple of good articles about Unicode in LabVIEW that are worth reading:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10153

http://ae.natinst.com/public.nsf/web/searchinternal/5dc82d7cd67a373f8625741100737926?OpenDocument

http://ae.natinst.com/public.nsf/web/searchinternal/628ec79dccc4485b8625724b0061ca5e?OpenDocument

[RavensFan]

Andrew,

Your links that begin with ae.natinst.com are not visible to anyone outside of NI.

[User002]

Sorry about that.  After taking a closer look, they cover parts of the same content as that first article.  It is a very good resource on the subject.

[J-M]

Thanks for those links HandyAndy.

I already read the “A List of Tips and Tools for using Unicode in LabVIEW” a couple of times.  Like I said, I want to  simplify those steps (without activated the Unicode support with "UseUnicode=True" in the LabVIEW.ini):
1) I write the text in Notepad, and I save with the encoding Unicode.

2) I have a VI who read this text file, remove the BOM (xFFFE) and write the rest of the content in a string.

3) I copy this string in a string of the PDF Report.

Maybe it is impossible or maybe someone have an idea.