html_entity_decode in FPDF(using tFPDF extension)

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Base Desire picture Base Desire · May 9, 2012 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

I am using tFPDF to generate a PDF. The php file is UTF-8 encoded. I want © for example, to be output in the pdf as the copyright symbol.

I have tried iconv, html_entity_decode, htmlspecialchars_decode. When I take the string I am trying to decode and hard-code it in to a different file and decode it, it works as expected. So for some reason it is not being output in the PDF. I have tried output buffering. I am using DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf (true type fonts).

Link to tFPDF: http://fpdf.org/en/script/script92.php

I am out of ideas. I tried double decoding, I checked everywhere to make sure it was not being encoded anywhere else.

Answer

emfi picture emfi · May 20, 2013

you need this:

iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', html_entity_decode($str));

the html_entity_decode decodes the html entities. but due to any reason you must convert it to utf8 with iconv. i suppose this is a fpdf-secret... cause in normal browser view it is displayed correctly.

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