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Fabian W
Fabian W

Reputation: 43

FPDF Doesn't output accents or simbols

i got a huge text in spanish, when i add it to the pdf with Write(5,$text) it outputs well but it doesn't show any accents(é,á,ó) or simbols like $ or &. i've tried using the output in UTF-8 $pdf->Output("I","Contrato",true); but still doesn't show the text like it should. Any other solution?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3414

Answers (2)

Eric Nkunda
Eric Nkunda

Reputation: 21

The code below helped after I spent many hours searching for a hint...

  setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US');
  $val = iconv('UTF-8', 'iso-8859-1', $variable_containing_special_chars);
  $pdf->Cell(x_axis,y_axis,$val);

Upvotes: 0

schellingerht
schellingerht

Reputation: 5796

You have to decode your utf-8, like so:

Write(5, utf8_decode($text));

An alternative is using iconv(), like so:

 Write(5, iconv('UTF-8', 'iso-8859-1', $text));

Upvotes: 5

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