i’m using the dompdf library with Codeigniter (php 5 ++) , everythings works great, but i’m still having problems with accented chracters when displaying the pdf.
it replaces all the à ò è ù etc .. with strange chars (non-utf8 chars).
the envoirment is globally utf-8 how can i debug/try solutions for this problem?
i tryed setting the content type via php before creating the pdf but nothing changes … then the same html i put in pdf is saved in db and it looks ok, accented chars are ok so it’s a main dompdf problem i think, which sets some strange encoding i think 😛
anyone can help me debugging and fixing?
[EDITED]
this is the HTML example of pdf documents i’m creating.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
<style type="text/css">
body{margin:0 auto;padding:0px;font-size:10px;font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;}
#wrapper{margin:30px;}
#logo{margin:2px;background-image:url(http://localhost/img/logo.png);background-repeat:no-repeat;}
#ricevuta{font-weight:bold;margin-top:4px;padding:5px;font-size:14px;}
#order-n{color:#fff;padding:3px;font-weight:bold;background-color:#785a3b;}
#address-order{background-color:#ebe0d5;padding:5px;}
.h1-p{font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;margin:5px;}
table{width:100%;}
table tr{width:100%;padding:4px;}
.align-right{text-align:right;}
thead {background-color:#785a3b;color:#fff;font-weight:bold;}
#table-total{background-color:#ebe0d5;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="logo">
<img src="http://localhost/img/logo.png" />
</div>
<div id="ricevuta">
Ricevuta Ordine
</div>
<div id="order-n">
ORDINE numero - <strong>1 - Data (15-08-2011)</strong>
</div>
<p class="h1-p">Indirizzo Spedizione</p>
<div id="address-order">
<p>
<strong></strong><br>
<strong>sdfsdf sdfsd</strong><br>
sfgfdg (sdgfdg), Austria, 45666<br>
sdfsdf<br>
telefono fisso: <br>
telefono mobile: <br>
</p>
</div>
<p class="h1-p">Riepilogo Ordine</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td><strong>Nome Prodotto</strong></td>
<td><strong>Codice Prodotto</strong></td>
<td><strong>Quantita</strong></td>
<td><strong>Prezzo</strong></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td>3423rf</td>
<td><strong># </strong></td>
<td><strong>2</strong></td>
<td><strong>29,70 euro</strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table id="table-total">
<tr class="align-right">
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td><strong>Sub-totale:</strong> euro 59,40</td>
</tr>
<tr class="align-right">
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td><strong> Spedizione:</strong> euro 26,50</td>
</tr>
<tr class="align-right">
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td><strong>Totale (tax,incluse):</strong> euro 85,90</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body></html>
I fixed my problem using
utf8_decode($html)before passing$htmltodompdf. This means that accented chars now work.