Re: utf-8 characters in provided examples do not work.(only [] or ? are displayed for the utf-8 characters)

[BrianS]

Not all characters are supported by all variants of the DejaVu fonts included with dompdf and used to enable a basic level of Unicode character support. For some of the samples we used DejaVu Sans Mono, and the specific formatting of the elements causes the oblique (italics) version to be used. Unfortunately, the oblique version only supports a subset of the characters supported in the normal font variant. If you add the following styling to the sample document the characters should show up correctly: * { font-style: normal; }


On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:33:20 AM UTC-5, Sameer Shelavale wrote:

hello friends,
I tried installing the nightly build as well as release build(0.6) on WAMP(Windows) and LAMP(ubuntu) as well.

But the UTF-8 characters(Arabic and Indic and many others) in dompdf examples (encoding_utf-8.html) do not show up.
only [] or ? are displayed

I have installed the php-font-lib, imagick and everything specified in the guide to enabling Unicode support in DOMPDF
1. I have installed version 0.6.0
2. MBString is enabled
3. php-font-lib is installed in dompdf/lib/ folder
4. Imagick is installed
5. APC is installed
6. DOMPDF_UNICODE_ENABLED is set to true

Still the UTF-8 charachers in the examples are displaying as ? or []. Can anyone please tell me what I am missing?
(I suppose I dont need to install any fonts for the provided example to work, but I tried those examples with Arial unicode font that I uploaded and still it didnt work.)

here is the configuration

System Configuration

	Required	Present
PHP Version	5.0	5.3.10-1ubuntu3.5
DOMDocument extension	Yes	20031129
PCRE	Yes	Yes
Zlib	Yes	1.1
MBString extension	Yes	Yes
GD	Yes	Yes
APC	For better performances	3.1.7
GMagick or IMagick	Better with transparent PNG images	IMagick 3.1.0RC1

DOMPDF Configuration

Config name	Value	Description	Status
DOMPDF_DIR	'/var/www/dompdf'	Root directory of DOMPDF	Readable
DOMPDF_INC_DIR	'/var/www/dompdf/include'	Include directory of DOMPDF	Readable
DOMPDF_LIB_DIR	'/var/www/dompdf/lib'	Third-party libraries directory of DOMPDF	Readable
DOMPDF_ADMIN_USERNAME	******	The username required to access restricted sections
DOMPDF_ADMIN_PASSWORD	******	The password required to access restricted sections	OK
DOMPDF_FONT_DIR	'/var/www/dompdf/lib/fonts/'	Additional fonts directory	Readable
DOMPDF_FONT_CACHE	'/var/www/dompdf/lib/fonts/'	Font metrics cache	Writable
DOMPDF_TEMP_DIR	'/tmp'	Temporary folder	Writable
DOMPDF_CHROOT	'/var/www/dompdf'	Restricted path	Readable
DOMPDF_UNICODE_ENABLED	true	Unicode support (thanks to additionnal fonts)
DOMPDF_ENABLE_FONTSUBSETTING	false	Enable font subsetting, will make smaller documents when using Unicode fonts
DOMPDF_PDF_BACKEND	'CPDF'	Backend library that makes the outputted file (PDF, image)
DOMPDF_DEFAULT_MEDIA_TYPE	'screen'	Default media type (print, screen, ...)
DOMPDF_DEFAULT_PAPER_SIZE	'letter'	Default paper size (A4, letter, ...)
DOMPDF_DEFAULT_FONT	'serif'	Default font, used if the specified font in the CSS stylesheet was not found
DOMPDF_DPI	96	DPI scale of the document
DOMPDF_ENABLE_PHP	false	Inline PHP support
DOMPDF_ENABLE_JAVASCRIPT	true	Inline JavaScript support
DOMPDF_ENABLE_REMOTE	false	Allow remote stylesheets and images	allow_url_fopen enabled
DOMPDF_LOG_OUTPUT_FILE	'/var/www/dompdf/lib/fonts/log.htm'	The file in which dompdf will write warnings and messages	Writable
DOMPDF_FONT_HEIGHT_RATIO	1.1	The line height ratio to apply to get a render like web browsers
DOMPDF_ENABLE_CSS_FLOAT	false	Enable CSS float support (experimental)
DOMPDF_AUTOLOAD_PREPEND	false	Prepend the dompdf autoload function to the SPL autoload functions already registered instead of appending it
DOMPDF_ENABLE_HTML5PARSER	false	Enable the HTML5 parser (experimental)
DEBUGPNG	false	Debug PNG images
DEBUGKEEPTEMP	false	Keep temporary image files
DEBUGCSS	false	Debug CSS
DEBUG_LAYOUT	false	Debug layout
DEBUG_LAYOUT_LINES	true	Debug text lines layout
DEBUG_LAYOUT_BLOCKS	true	Debug block elements layout
DEBUG_LAYOUT_INLINE	true	Debug inline elements layout
DEBUG_LAYOUT_PADDINGBOX	true	Debug padding boxes layout