Special Characters in FPDF with PHP
Solution 1:
Figured this out by doing the following (pagesubtitle is the name of the text field in the form):
$reportSubtitle = stripslashes($_POST['pagesubtitle']);
$reportSubtitle = iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', $reportSubtitle);
Then print it out:
$pdf->Write (6, $reportSubtitle);
This will remove any unwanted slashes following apostrophes, as well as use the 'iconv' function to print special characters such as ™
Solution 2:
All of the above did not work for me, but I did get it to work.
I managed to do it "the barbarian way" by just translating every weird character to its url value. Then simply decode the url and voila!
function em($word) {
$word = str_replace("@","%40",$word);
$word = str_replace("`","%60",$word);
$word = str_replace("¢","%A2",$word);
$word = str_replace("£","%A3",$word);
$word = str_replace("¥","%A5",$word);
$word = str_replace("|","%A6",$word);
$word = str_replace("«","%AB",$word);
$word = str_replace("¬","%AC",$word);
$word = str_replace("¯","%AD",$word);
$word = str_replace("º","%B0",$word);
$word = str_replace("±","%B1",$word);
$word = str_replace("ª","%B2",$word);
$word = str_replace("µ","%B5",$word);
$word = str_replace("»","%BB",$word);
$word = str_replace("¼","%BC",$word);
$word = str_replace("½","%BD",$word);
$word = str_replace("¿","%BF",$word);
$word = str_replace("À","%C0",$word);
$word = str_replace("Á","%C1",$word);
$word = str_replace("Â","%C2",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ã","%C3",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ä","%C4",$word);
$word = str_replace("Å","%C5",$word);
$word = str_replace("Æ","%C6",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ç","%C7",$word);
$word = str_replace("È","%C8",$word);
$word = str_replace("É","%C9",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ê","%CA",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ë","%CB",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ì","%CC",$word);
$word = str_replace("Í","%CD",$word);
$word = str_replace("Î","%CE",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ï","%CF",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ð","%D0",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ñ","%D1",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ò","%D2",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ó","%D3",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ô","%D4",$word);
$word = str_replace("Õ","%D5",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ö","%D6",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ø","%D8",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ù","%D9",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ú","%DA",$word);
$word = str_replace("Û","%DB",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ü","%DC",$word);
$word = str_replace("Ý","%DD",$word);
$word = str_replace("Þ","%DE",$word);
$word = str_replace("ß","%DF",$word);
$word = str_replace("à","%E0",$word);
$word = str_replace("á","%E1",$word);
$word = str_replace("â","%E2",$word);
$word = str_replace("ã","%E3",$word);
$word = str_replace("ä","%E4",$word);
$word = str_replace("å","%E5",$word);
$word = str_replace("æ","%E6",$word);
$word = str_replace("ç","%E7",$word);
$word = str_replace("è","%E8",$word);
$word = str_replace("é","%E9",$word);
$word = str_replace("ê","%EA",$word);
$word = str_replace("ë","%EB",$word);
$word = str_replace("ì","%EC",$word);
$word = str_replace("í","%ED",$word);
$word = str_replace("î","%EE",$word);
$word = str_replace("ï","%EF",$word);
$word = str_replace("ð","%F0",$word);
$word = str_replace("ñ","%F1",$word);
$word = str_replace("ò","%F2",$word);
$word = str_replace("ó","%F3",$word);
$word = str_replace("ô","%F4",$word);
$word = str_replace("õ","%F5",$word);
$word = str_replace("ö","%F6",$word);
$word = str_replace("÷","%F7",$word);
$word = str_replace("ø","%F8",$word);
$word = str_replace("ù","%F9",$word);
$word = str_replace("ú","%FA",$word);
$word = str_replace("û","%FB",$word);
$word = str_replace("ü","%FC",$word);
$word = str_replace("ý","%FD",$word);
$word = str_replace("þ","%FE",$word);
$word = str_replace("ÿ","%FF",$word);
return $word;
}
And of course me calling the function
$weirdword = "Días, Miércoles, Sábado,miércoles"; //Some spanish days
$weirdword = em($weirdword);
$weirdword = urldecode($weirdword);
echo $weirdword;
Giving output:
Días, Miércoles, Sábado,miércoles
Solution 3:
none of above solutions worked for me, so I solved the problem like this:
$this->AddFont('Arial','','arial.php');
$this->SetFont('Arial','',12);
$this->Cell(0,5,iconv("UTF-8", "CP1250//TRANSLIT", $string),0,1,'L');
Before trying the above lines, do the following:
Copy from c:/Windows/Fonts/Arial.ttf to the /tutorial folder of FPDF.
Edit the content of makefont.php
require('../makefont/makefont.php');
MakeFont('arial.ttf','cp1250');
Execute makefont.php
Copy the following files to the /font folder of FPDF: arial.php arial.ttf arial.z
Finally, define the "font folder". Open fpdf.php (main library file) and add:
define('FPDF_FONTPATH','font');
The PDF works for me with all special characters, I believe it was the problem in the Arial font itself, which FPDF originally uses. It should work with other fonts aswell, if they support your characters. Good luck!
Solution 4:
None of above had solved my problem. I had solved it by the following way:
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US');
$value = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $value);
$fpdf->Cell(140, 6, $value, 1);
Hope you will be helpful.
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