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Gantt chart and Issues report can be exported to csv/pdf.
But when contents has Japanese(not Western) character, it doesn't work.

There are these problems:

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1)Iconv.new is hardcorded with 'ISO-8859-1'.
Japanese requires 'SJIS'.
I think that it can be solved with introducing some mapping variable(hash, array, etc).

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2)rfpdf plugin requires additional initializations for Japanese.
I tested on app/helpers/ifpdf_helpers.rb:
def initialize + extend(PDF_Japanese)
+ AddSJISFont()
SetCreator("redMine #{Redmine::VERSION}")

end

This is a bad example, but may be a hint in anyway...

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3)rfpdf plugin may has bug(???)
in vendor/plugins/rfpdf/lib/rfpdf/japanese.rb 166:

o=ord(c)

Method 'ord' is not exist(ruby1.8). And, while it seems to aim converting character(c) to number(o), but (c) is already
number.(I tested 'o=c.unpack("U")', and got error. (c) is not string, but fixnum.)

To output pdf correctly, I change that line into:

o=c

But I'm not sure that this is OK. I don't know it's a -
a)not tested, only passing through from PHP version
b)tested on ruby1.9?(if added that method 'ord')

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rfpdf's problem is out of this project. If this problem is difficult to solve, please add notice to README.