PDF and UTF-8 database

Wednesday 23 August 2006 5:42:13 am

The problem is
PDF uses WinAnsiEncoding (by default),
If you have UTf-8 db/site,
and if you try to create PDF with UTF-8 symbols
this symbols will be shown like latin1
and special chars will be destroyed.

There is a quick fix:
We should convert text from UTF-8 to latin before executing pdf lib.

Index: settings/pdf.ini 
=================================================================== 
--- settings/pdf.ini    (revision 16510) 
+++ settings/pdf.ini    (working copy) 
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ 
 BottomMargin=100 
 LeftMargin=80 
 RightMargin=80 
+OutputCharset=iso-8859-15 
  
 [Header] 
 Page=all 
Index: lib/ezpdf/classes/ezpdf.php 
=================================================================== 
--- lib/ezpdf/classes/ezpdf.php (revision 16510) 
+++ lib/ezpdf/classes/ezpdf.php (working copy) 
@@ -329,6 +329,15 @@ 
  
                 $text = str_replace( array( ' ', "\n", "\t" ), '', $text ); 
  
+                include_once( 'lib/ezi18n/classes/eztextcodec.php' ); 
+                $httpCharset = eZTextCodec::httpCharset(); 
+                $outputCharset = $config->hasVariable( 'PDFGeneral', 'OutputCharset' ) 
+                                 ? $config->variable( 'PDFGeneral', 'OutputCharset' ) 
+                                 : 'iso-8859-15'; 
+                $codec =& eZTextCodec::instance( $httpCharset, $outputCharset ); 
+                // Convert current text to $outputCharset (by default iso-8859-15) 
+                $text =& $codec->convertString( $text ); 
+ 
                 $this->PDF->ezText( $text ); 
                 eZDebug::writeNotice( 'Execute text in PDF, length: "'. strlen( $text ) .'"', 'eZPDF::modify' ); 
             } break;