UTF8 Characters on PDF

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#1

I want to print invoice with UTF8 characters.
Everything is working (database and other applications) but scriptcase can not generate PDF with UTF8 characters.

How can I handle that?

Thanks for your answers

#2

Re: UTF8 Characters on PDF

Sir did you try with the latest version 5.2.009 ?

#3

Re: UTF8 Characters on PDF

This issue remains still in Scriptcase 6.00.0002.

(I am aware I am bumping an old thread here, but I didn’t find any recent threads and the issue seems unresolved.)

#4

Re: UTF8 Characters on PDF

Further investigation shows that fpdf (used by SC to create pdfs) doesn’t support UTF-8. See http://www.fpdf.org/ in the FAQ-section.

My solution was to convert my database from utf-8 to latin1 (ISO-8859-1) and change the character set of my SC project to ISO-8859-1 too (Project -> Properties -> Locales -> HTML charset).

#5

Re: UTF8 Characters on PDF

Thank you from other forum readers for following up with a solution. :slight_smile:

#6

Re: UTF8 Characters on PDF

This way u can handle it

$mensaje = utf8_decode(’ CONDICIONES GENERALES DE CONTRATO
DE PRESTACI?N DE SERVICIOS JUR?DICOS PROFESIONALES EN MEDICINA LEGAL’);

$this->Pdf->MultiCell(170,4,$mensaje,0,‘T’,‘0’,false);

#7

Re: UTF8 Characters on PDF

I found a solution this way:

Place the following into the onRecord event:


{field1} = utf8_decode({field1});
{field2} = utf8_decode({field2});
...

works fine in SC 6.