Question marks in generated PDF
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MH
Nov 16, 2010, 7:00:11 AM11/16/10
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Hi All,
I have an issue from version 6 release 326 to do with unicode
characters.
We have this working fine on one server but can't seem to get it
working on a new server. Any unicode characters are coming up as
question marks.
The test text in question is:
$output='
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
body
{
padding: 2cm 1cm 2cm 3cm;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
* Hello x *
<p>Whether you would like a British Lop to breed and raise pedigree
piglets, or perhaps a Berkshire for delicious sausages, this book will
help you to pick the right pig for you.</p>
<p>Guiding you through every stage of the pig keeping process –
from choosing livestock to finding a partner for your sow – this
book covers everything you need to know about keeping, breeding,
eating and selling pigs.</p>
</body>
</html>';
The hello line works fine but the #8211 dashes are coming up as
question marks. I'm sure its either down to paths or something not
being installed but I can't figure out what. Does anyone have any
pointers?
We are seeing this on documents as a cap A on other documents instead
of the question mark.
UNICODE is enabled in the config. We are not using any special fonts
to recreate the issue.
Thanks
I have an issue from version 6 release 326 to do with unicode
characters.
We have this working fine on one server but can't seem to get it
working on a new server. Any unicode characters are coming up as
question marks.
The test text in question is:
$output='
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
body
{
padding: 2cm 1cm 2cm 3cm;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
* Hello x *
<p>Whether you would like a British Lop to breed and raise pedigree
piglets, or perhaps a Berkshire for delicious sausages, this book will
help you to pick the right pig for you.</p>
<p>Guiding you through every stage of the pig keeping process –
from choosing livestock to finding a partner for your sow – this
book covers everything you need to know about keeping, breeding,
eating and selling pigs.</p>
</body>
</html>';
The hello line works fine but the #8211 dashes are coming up as
question marks. I'm sure its either down to paths or something not
being installed but I can't figure out what. Does anyone have any
pointers?
We are seeing this on documents as a cap A on other documents instead
of the question mark.
UNICODE is enabled in the config. We are not using any special fonts
to recreate the issue.
Thanks
MH
Nov 16, 2010, 9:17:31 AM11/16/10
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Found the issue and going to post the response so others can view.
There is a handy tool in ~/dompdf/www/setup.php
This checks the config and showed that mbstring was not installed/
enabled on the server.
Once this was available the entities and unicode equivalents convert
correctly.
There is a handy tool in ~/dompdf/www/setup.php
This checks the config and showed that mbstring was not installed/
enabled on the server.
Once this was available the entities and unicode equivalents convert
correctly.
Fabien Ménager
Nov 16, 2010, 10:49:41 AM11/16/10
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It's good to see the tool I made finally helped someone ;)
AlexBG
Nov 18, 2010, 4:35:06 PM11/18/10
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Hi,
I have downloaded 0-6-0_beta1 and there is no setup.php in dompdf/
www/.
I have the same problem with the unicode characters being seen as
question marks. As far as I can see from the phpinfo() mbstring is
enabled.
Actually when using the examples on your website, again there are
question marks in the pdf, instead of cyrillic symbols for example:
http://pxd.me/dompdf/dompdf.php?base_path=www%2Ftest%2F&options[Attachment]=0&input_file=encoding_utf-8.html#toolbar=0&view=FitH&statusbar=0&messages=0&navpanes=0
Can you help?
Thank you.
I have downloaded 0-6-0_beta1 and there is no setup.php in dompdf/
www/.
I have the same problem with the unicode characters being seen as
question marks. As far as I can see from the phpinfo() mbstring is
enabled.
Actually when using the examples on your website, again there are
question marks in the pdf, instead of cyrillic symbols for example:
http://pxd.me/dompdf/dompdf.php?base_path=www%2Ftest%2F&options[Attachment]=0&input_file=encoding_utf-8.html#toolbar=0&view=FitH&statusbar=0&messages=0&navpanes=0
Can you help?
Thank you.
BrianS
Nov 18, 2010, 8:36:48 PM11/18/10
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In order to support Cyrillic characters you will need to load one of
your own fonts. DOMPDF does not currently support Unicode for the
built-in fonts. It is something we're looking into, but I don't know
that it'll be ready for the next release.
To load a font you'll need to have access to the ttf2ufm binary.
Alternately you can try the web-based font prep tool (currently in
alpha).
your own fonts. DOMPDF does not currently support Unicode for the
built-in fonts. It is something we're looking into, but I don't know
that it'll be ready for the next release.
To load a font you'll need to have access to the ttf2ufm binary.
Alternately you can try the web-based font prep tool (currently in
alpha).
MH
Nov 22, 2010, 8:46:41 AM11/22/10
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Download the svn checkout instead. It will be more recent.
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