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PDF Generation with Special characters [message #167332]

Fri, 08 June 2012 15:36

alopezie

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Creating a PDF does scrambles the German special letters ÄÖÜäöü (Umlaute) etc, as the UTF code is not given to the PDF generator

Solution (taken from http://www.faqboard.info/printthread.php?tid=1899&page=2) :

include/fpdf.php, look for function Cell
Add AFTER

Zitat:

if($txt!=='')
{

$txt = iconv('utf8', 'cp1252', $txt);

I tried this and it worked.

Other sources said replacing FPDF with http://www.tcpdf.org/ should work as well.

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Re: PDF Generation with Special characters [message #167335 is a reply to message #167332]

Fri, 08 June 2012 21:14

naudefj

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Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but the iconv hack resulted in a blank PDF document when I tested it.

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Aw: Re: PDF Generation with Special characters [message #167340 is a reply to message #167335]

Sat, 09 June 2012 03:44

alopezie

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its a standard PHP function (http://phptutorial.info/?iconv), so should work
Maybe typo??

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Re: Aw: Re: PDF Generation with Special characters [message #167344 is a reply to message #167340]

Sat, 09 June 2012 07:58

naudefj

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Got it, it's a typo in your example. Must be 'utf-8' instead of 'utf8'.

More info at http://think-robot.com/2008/09/how-to-use-special-characters-in-fpdf/

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Re: Aw: Re: PDF Generation with Special characters [message #167345 is a reply to message #167344]

Sat, 09 June 2012 08:07

naudefj

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Committed @ http://fudforum.svn.sourceforge.net/fudforum/?rev=5509&view=rev

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