Problem with special characters

[rannt]

Hi

I'm using Slovenian language on my magento store. There is a problem with special letters in pdf output such as č, ć and so on.

I was checking out Model/Engine/Abstract.php, but the variable $encoding is set to utf8, as it should be. How can I fix the problem?

Thank you!

[sprankhub]

It may be a problem with the font. You could try to upload your own font which has all the special symbols in it in the backend (if you use the latest version).
What happens with these letters? Could you provide a screenshot please?

[rannt]

The letters are simply missing; see the attached image. I guess one of the common web fonts is used to generate pdf documents, so there should not be any problems?

[rannt]

I've uploaded Open Sans font and everything seems to be ok now. But the problem with the default font still exists.

Thank you

[sprankhub]

Just tested this. It is indeed a problem with the font. We use Zend's standard Helvetica, which does not have these symbols. Hence, you have to find and upload a font which:

• supports these characters
• works together with Zend (which is not so easy (but we cannot change that), I was successful with the font "Cantarell")

You can find free fonts under http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/find_fonts. You can also filter by language there.

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