FPDF utf-8 encoding (HOW-TO)
Does anybody know how to set the encoding in FPDF package to utf-8? Or at least to ISO-8859-7 (Greek) that support greek characters?
Basically I want to create a pdf file containing greek characters.
Any suggestions would help. George
Answer
Don't use UTF-8 encoding. Standard FPDF fonts use ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252. It is possible to perform a conversion to ISO-8859-1 with utf8_decode():
$str = utf8_decode($str);
But some characters such as Euro won't be translated correctly. If the iconv extension is available, the right way to do it is the following:
$str = iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', $str);