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dnprossi
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2008/12/15 14:05

  • dnprossi

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 107

  • Since: 2006/3/15


OK... fpdf and tcpdf are quite hard to cope with as there are so many possible settings.

here is a temporary solution...

This is what I did to get at least tcpdf to run with utf-8 and run without error on xlanguage.

First remove all calls to function news_unhtml() in news/pdf/pdf.php lines 243,257,258 - UTF-8 will start working if language files have been set correctly.

Second I changed end of line 240 from
.....$article->uname()).''._MD_POSTEDON.' '.formatTimestamp($article->published(),$dateformat).'';

to
.....$article->uname()).'';


formatTimestamp($article->published(),$dateformat);

seems to be the problem...

removing all date stuff and now when language is changed in xlanguage all works with no error.

Hope this can help find better solutions..
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culex
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/12 1:32

  • culex

  • Module Developer

  • Posts: 711

  • Since: 2004/9/23


I realize I am a bit late to dis thread, but also i have problems on this subject.

Tried your solution dnprossi but no success. The danish letters still prints as iso characters.
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ghia
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/13 1:12

  • ghia

  • Community Support Member

  • Posts: 4953

  • Since: 2008/7/3 1


Did you check the language file as mentioned in post #10?
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culex
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/13 10:40

  • culex

  • Module Developer

  • Posts: 711

  • Since: 2004/9/23


yes i have a dk file set up like this but the pdf created still show utf-8 as ISO-8859-1

$l['a_meta_charset'] = "UTF-8";
$l['a_meta_dir'] = "ltr";
$l['a_meta_language'] = "dk";


I even tried changing 'dk' with 'da' to see if this gives any effect.
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ghia
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/13 11:27

  • ghia

  • Community Support Member

  • Posts: 4953

  • Since: 2008/7/3 1


For the da, dk question, you need a /modules/news/pdf/config/lang/MyLang.php, where MyLang is the _LANGCODE defined in global.php This is normally da, while DK is the country code.

The
return utf8_encode($chaine);
in function news_unhtml of /pdf/pdf.php should need a conditional and be skipped in the case the site is not in ISO character encoding. A simple
return $chaine;
will do there.
Furthermore, it may be needed that depending the character encoding used on the site, the pdf.php file itself, must be encoded in ansi or UTF-8 without BOM, by a suitable editor as eg Notepad++.



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culex
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/13 12:17

  • culex

  • Module Developer

  • Posts: 711

  • Since: 2004/9/23


Thanks Ghia, but no total success.

I did see a difference when correcting the function as above and I see now diffence when switching from ansi / utf-8 (without bom) but it still comes out wrong.

I checked the status of the pdf page created and I am beginning to think this is read in the reader as ANSi. Maybe the page generated is read as utf-8, converted as utf-8 and read by acrobat as ANSi ??

You can check my news at http://www.culex.dk :)
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ghia
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/13 12:41

  • ghia

  • Community Support Member

  • Posts: 4953

  • Since: 2008/7/3 1


I did a pdf from story 1 in Danish and the body text was OK for the UTF-8 encoding.

The title was still a mess and the body contains all languages and the HTML tags visible.
I try to check later on these issues.

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culex
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/13 20:10

  • culex

  • Module Developer

  • Posts: 711

  • Since: 2004/9/23


I managed to get a little further using some tweaking of the code..But finished pdf still reveals languages in a mess as you described Ghia, however..

In pdf.php I changed line 243
from
$content = news_unhtml($content);


to
$content = $content;


line 250 - 255
from
$pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
$pdf->SetAuthor(PDF_AUTHOR);
$pdf->SetTitle($doc_title);
$pdf->SetSubject($doc_title);
$pdf->SetKeywords($doc_keywords);


to this..
$pdf->SetCreator(news_unhtml(PDF_CREATOR));
$pdf->SetAuthor(news_unhtml($article->uname()));
$pdf->SetTitle(news_unhtml($doc_title));
$pdf->SetSubject(news_unhtml($doc_title));
$pdf->SetKeywords(news_unhtml($doc_keywords));


line 270 - 271
from
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));


to
$pdf->SetFont('FreeSans', '', 11);
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array('FreeSans', '', 10));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array('FreeSans', '', 10));


and now at least the danish letters get translated ok... I will continue to see if I can get the xlanguage working
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ghia
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/13 20:59

  • ghia

  • Community Support Member

  • Posts: 4953

  • Since: 2008/7/3 1


I checked again, but now I have nothing than what looks like all graphic characters in the content. There is nothing I can read. It was better before.

For the xLanguage filtering you need to do:
include_once(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/xlanguage/include/vars.php');
include_once(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/xlanguage/include/functions.php');

// filter all items
$content := xlanguage_ml($content);
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culex
Re: News 1.63 - PDF Creation: UTF-8 not working and xLanguage Problems

  • 2009/11/14 6:47

  • culex

  • Module Developer

  • Posts: 711

  • Since: 2004/9/23


Quote:

ghia wrote:
I checked again, but now I have nothing than what looks like all graphic characters in the content. There is nothing I can read. It was better before.

For the xLanguage filtering you need to do:
include_once(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/xlanguage/include/vars.php');
include_once(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/xlanguage/include/functions.php');

// filter all items
$content := xlanguage_ml($content);


Very strange with this your last filter for xlanguage I get perfect output. I tried to empty all caches + browser cache but I still cant replicate the output you are getting. In my browser version I have the translated clean version I was looking fore ?

I added this

line 237-238
Inserted
include_once(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/xlanguage/include/vars.php');
include_once(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/xlanguage/include/functions.php');


and line
from 245
$content = $content;


to
$content = xlanguage_ml($content);


and finaly line 259
from

$firstLine = $article->title();


to

$firstLine = xlanguage_ml($article->title());


any idea why we get different output ?
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