Comments on: How to use special characters in FPDF

By: Ari

Ari — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:54:38 +0000

For us this also worked: utf8_decode($variable)

By: Cristian Göhl

Cristian Göhl — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:12:42 +0000

example:

function codificacao($string) {
return mb_detect_encoding($string.’x', ‘UTF-8, ISO-8859-1′);
}

function Cell($w, $h=0, $txt=”, $border=0, $ln=0, $align=”, $fill=false, $link=”)
{
if ($this->codificacao($txt) == ‘UTF-8′)
{
$txt = iconv(“UTF-8″, “ISO-8859-1″, $txt);
}

By: Neelima

Neelima — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:04:03 +0000

I just resolved my issue .

used html_entity_decode() , and now my pdf is generating perfectly.

By: Neelima

Neelima — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:27:23 +0000

Hi ,

I am facing the same issue special characters showing their code value in pdf.

I tried the solution you have mentioned here but it is not working for me .

Code :

$projDescr=utf8_decode($projDescr);

$pdf->MultiCell(100,5,iconv(”UTF-8″, “ISO-8859-1″, $projDescr),”0″,”J”);

By: Ben Hutchings

Ben Hutchings — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:57:13 +0000

You… rock.

By: Cyril

Cyril — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:13:22 +0000

Thank you very much for this tip. Simply hacked the cell function, as Marco suggested, it solved all my problems !

By: Richard Eaton

Richard Eaton — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:54:33 +0000

Excellent post! Had just found the issue when trying to display a pound sign in a PDF document, Googled and found this article!

Many thanks for sharing – has no doubt saved me loads of time

Here’s how I used it which worked 1st time!

$pdf->Write(5,’UNIT COST(‘.iconv(“UTF-8″, “ISO-8859-1″, “£”).’)');

Thanks

Richard

By: Matthew Barnett

Matthew Barnett — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:48:16 +0000

Using FPDF Version: 1.6 this solution required the windows-1252 character set. I.e.
$str = iconv(‘UTF-8′, ‘windows-1252′, $str);

By: nejck

nejck — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:25:42 +0000

Sadly none of the above solutions work for me with letters šđčćž

any ideas?

By: Raito

Raito — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:41:35 +0000

Hello!
I cant get baltic (ā ē ū ļ ņ š ķ ) font in fpdf invoice … how to decode to utf-8 ?!
Please help!
P.S.

What i need to do to convert the data before passing it on to FPDF ?

Best regards
Raitis