FPDF is a nice little library for php that allows you to create PDFs on the fly. It’s great for all sorts of document, amongs them invoices. Until you try to use say a pound (£) or euro (€) sign. Basically the library itself does not support utf-8, so the moment you need to insert anything extra into your document a conversion needs to be done.
To save you some searching and a masive panic attack here is the easy way to do it:
iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", "£");You could also use the same command to do the whole text rather than just the pound sign itself. Example below:
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