Simple quote changed to question mark

Thursday 17 September 2009 9:11:06 am

Hello,

I'm using pdf generation and when I try to display the pdf version of a content article, all my simple quotes are changed to question mark character "?".

I'm using a 4.0 EZP version and in my pdf.ini.append.php, I've the following:

[PDFGeneral]

Format=A4
Orientation=portrait
TopMargin=80
BottomMargin=100
LeftMargin=30
RightMargin=30
OutputCharset=iso-8859-1

...

I tried UTF8 encoding but it doesn't work. The text to display is French, can someone help me on this problem, please ?

Many thanks

Thursday 17 September 2009 1:47:15 pm

There are patches in the public issue tracker which relay on iconv charset conversion. But still, without hacking that is not possible.

All in all it is better just use one of the contributions:
http://projects.ez.no/paradoxpdf

Personal website -> http://serwatka.net
Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog

Friday 18 September 2009 7:00:51 am

Hello,

FINALLY, after having spent so many time to try to fix this simple quote problem, I found something very easy that fixes the bug. Everything is in the pdf.ini.append.php.

You must specify this :

[PDFGeneral]
OutputCharset=Windows-1252

Yes, as strange as it could seem, this fixed all the encoding problems I had and even my bullets are now displayed in my pdf file...

Cheers.