Mpdf unable to print euro symbol (€)

Question

I'm using mpdf to convert a table in html to pdf.

This table includes euro symbols (but may contain other currency symbols in the future) the thing is, although I set mpdf charset to utf-8, it keeps printing either (â‚¬) or (¬) symbols (no brackets).

This is what I have tried so far:

using utf8_encode and decode functions.
Both windows-1252 and iso-8859-15 encoding (mpdf charset). different ways to write the same character (€ €, €)

Here is my code so far:

$mpdf= new mpdf('utf-8', array(210,320));
$mpdf->AddPage("L");
$mpdf->allow_charset_conversion = true;
$mpdf->charset_in = 'utf-8';

$mpdf->WriteHTML( utf8_encode("test &euro; €, &#8364;"), 2);
//OUTPUT
$mpdf->Output("test.pdf",'F');
echo $pdf_name;

As a result i get: [https://i.stack.imgur.com/vUpHi.png][1]

@M.Villanueva `€` is the correct HTML entity for `€`. Try changing `test € €, €` to `test € €, €`. — nice_dev, Sep 26 '19 at 12:28
I just tried it but the problem seems to be the encoding not the character — M. Villanueva, Sep 26 '19 at 12:30
I just tried with next code (mpdf 8): $mpdf = new \Mpdf\Mpdf(); $mpdf->WriteHTML('€ €, €'); $mpdf->Output('F'); And all symbols shows as expected in generated PDF-file. Maybe you should upgrade mpdf package? BTW your code will not working with 8.0. — yaroslavche, Sep 26 '19 at 12:37
I just checked with 6.0 and your code and two of them works: test "€ €, €" => "€ â¬, €" — yaroslavche, Sep 26 '19 at 12:50
What's the behavior without the `utf8_encode`? What character set do you start out with? — user3783243, Sep 26 '19 at 13:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '19 at 09:13

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In the end the solution was to upgrade to 7.1.

answered Sep 27 '19 at 09:13

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