Problem with TCPDF and Sinhala unicode

[Niraj Yasitha]

Hi guys the recent i found this group is, Im haveing problem with displaying sinhala unicodes in tcpdf. I have changed the font to iskolapotha and did everything i knw but didn't work very well, it displays sinhala words but some time 'kombuwa, hal kirilla' not appear in proper places, any one who did any projects using stcpdf and sinhala ? 

Thank you.

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Best Regards.

H N Yasitha

[විශ්ව කුමාර]

I have run in to the same problem. Did you find any solution to this..

[Dhanushka Gunasinghe]

what is the device you use?

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[tidalbobo]

See this

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5333702/tcpdf-utf-8-lithuanian-symbols-not-showing-up

[Nayana Hettiarachchi]

How can you solve the problem by changing character set to ISO-8859? Sinhala is unicode. Lithuanian  uses latin alphabet. The solution suggested for Lithuanian doesn't apply for Sinhala. 

[tidalbobo]

The suggested solution in the SOF article is

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TCPDF is quite tricky with utf8. Best way to achieve what you want is to embed the font in generated PDF file itself. You can use freeserif font from the TCPDF package, it contains all the utf8 symbols, shows absolutely any character of any language, but adds ~700kb to the output file. That's probably the easiest way to get symbols you need if file size doesn't matter.

You could also make your own font to embed, containing the characters you need. That's probably the best solution, keeping it universal and small in size, but is more complex.

Alternatively, you can relay on core fonts, which are taken from the system, and if not found, replaced by a substitute. This makes output file extremely light, but adds the necessity of font subsetting to obtain exotic chars. Personally I haven't had a success with this, so I still think embedding font is the best solution, which also happens to be more universal..

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