FPDF Doesn't output accents or simbols

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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?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '16 at 14:58

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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));

answered Jan 27 '16 at 14:58

schellingerht

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It worked! thank you so much. I thought that with the output it should be enough but i guess it wasn't. – Fabian W Jan 27 '16 at 15:06
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OMG @schellingerht where have you been! 6 years this comment has been sitting here waiting for me to find it! I've struggled so much with this... utf8_decode() fixed it! – Scott Nov 29 '22 at 20:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 03 '22 at 16:25

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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);

edited Dec 03 '22 at 16:25

Greg Venech

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answered Dec 03 '22 at 14:12

Eric Nkunda

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FPDF Doesn't output accents or simbols

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