Comments on: How to use special characters in FPDF

By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:16:10 +0000

I was wondering how to properly display swedish characters and using “cwhisperer’s” idea was perfect. ie.
utf8_decode($html);

Thanks a million!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:02:33 +0000

Thanks for your comment, cwhisperer. It helped me out of a maze.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:55:42 +0000

You’re a star, saved me loosing what little hair I have left

By: cwhisperer

cwhisperer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:35:21 +0000

Hi,
I solved the special characters (àéè) with utf8_decode() …
Regards

By: Max S.

Max S. — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:08:55 +0000

You rock!

Thanks for the info! This helped me squash out a but quickly!

By: Marcos Álvares

Marcos Álvares — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:33:36 +0000

Hello,
for legacy applications, i wrote a small FPDF wrapper. This wrapper will replace the Cell method to include the iconv automatically.
class PDF extends FPDF {
// HACK: hack to fix another hack
function Cell($a, $b, $c, $d, $e, $f) {
return parent::Cell($a, $b, iconv(’UTF-8′, ‘ISO-8859-1′, $c), $d, $e, $f);
}
}

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:17:36 +0000

Awesome! Thanks so much for this!!!!!

By: Joe Elliott

Joe Elliott — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:34 +0000

Wow.. you saved me a million hours of work… I was looking into other ways to convert the UTF-8 symbols, and there are a few other fpdf libraries out there, but this hack is dead simple and works perfect! Thanks for putting up this post!

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PDF: Поддержка UTF-8 в fpdf / zavackiy.info — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:52:45 +0000

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By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:45:19 +0000

Hi Wayne,

I’ve added an example. Basically you do not need to edit the library itself, you just convert the data before passing it on to FPDF.