Strange characters in my generated PDF file

Question

I get the characters 􀀊􀀠􀀉􀀉in my PDF file, I deleted \ r \ n \ r \ n \ t, truncated everything, decoded the html objects and split the tags. Nothing helps. The data comes from the MySQL database.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Check string encoding (using mb_detect_encoding) before adding to pdf, is it a unicode string? Data in MySQL db may be in unicode, but your db connection may use some other encoding.

Answer 2

Have you tried using utf8_decode ()? http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php

Answer 3

, , .

Answer 4

- , :

$str = 'Hello 􀀊 World';
echo str_replace(chr(ord('􀀊')), '[removed]', $str);

:

Hello [removed] World

Answer 5

$string = "testContainingSpecialCharsäöüöüäüß";
$pdf->Cell(0,0,$string);

?

Answer 6

FPDF Unicode, . http://acko.net/node/56, , , PDF ( TCPDF).

iconv UTF-8 (.. $str = iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', $str);), FPDF.

Answer 7

Similar to the result of what happens when you copy / paste text from a Microsoft word. Can a PDF file contain text from an MS Word document by accident? This may be your problem. There are some interesting comments for converting and removing these characters in PHP on the PHP.net website: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtr.php#39383

I just assume that these are MS Word characters in your PDF file.