[Cartoweb-users] iso-8859-2

[Simon Georget]

Hi,

you should have a look on tcpdf which is adaptation from fpdf with utf8
support ... so quite easy to migrate
http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf

bye,

simon


On 6/17/08, Bruno Friedmann <bruno at ioda-net.ch> wrote:
>
> Outch,
> This tend to prove that we really need somewhat more recent (decent) pdf
> generator inside Cartoweb3
> There also the non support of png-alpha which is quiet a pity.
>
> Thanks for the advise.
>
>
> wochter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > the problem is in using special czech and slovak (maybe other)
> > characters with this plugin.
> > (for example: ľščťžýáí鼊ȍŽÝÁÍÉ)
> > I changed some e-mails witch Oliver and he confirm this problem.
> > Plugin exportPdf uses fpdf and it doesn't support utf8 yet.
> > Last version of fpdf is dated to v1.53 (2004-12-31).
> >
> > Autor writes:
> > (http://www.fpdf.org/)
> >
> > 7. Accented characters are replaced by some strange characters like Ã(c).
> > 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);
> >
> > I don't know exactly how exportPdf plugin works, but it doesn't works
> > correctly for me.
> >
> > Thanx for you favour.
> >
> >
> > wochter
> >
> > Bruno Friedmann  wrote / napísal(a):
> >> Hi Wochter,
> >> We use exportPdf, exportCSV and we don't see any error with them apart
> the fact that if you use excel with csv,
> >> you need to import and not open the file. But this is a Excel error not
> a carto one.
> >>
> >> Could you tell me more about what type of trouble you get ? I would be
> happy to check if we get the same here.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> WochteR wrote:
> >>> Yes, it is the way.
> >>> But still there are troubles with utf8 and exportPdf plugin.
> >>>
> >>> wochter
> >>>
> >>>> ------------ Pôvodná správa ------------
> >>>> Od: Bruno Friedmann <bruno at ioda-net.ch>
> >>>> Predmet: Re: [Cartoweb-users] iso-8859-2
> >>>> Dátum: 15.6.2008 13:20:55
> >>>> ----------------------------------------
> >>>> Dzilberte Bekode wrote:
> >>>>> Hi
> >>>>> I'm trying to implement Slovak language to my project.
> >>>>> Thats mean to use  ISO-8859-2 series instead of ISO-8859-1.
> >>>>> But change this is not enough.
> >>>>> Have somebody already implemented  ISO-8859-2 series  ????
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  Thanks for suggestions.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> My suggestion would be : if you can, why do not use UTF-8 instead.
> >>>> You certainly get a more stable result and some kind of universality.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
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