german umlauts not working on columns text fields

Hi Roadfox,

I have had a number of people mention this. It has been revealed that a combination (depending on the character) of the character set (being UTF-8) and the fact that the column names and some values are used in the code for the calculations, which can potentially break the scripting, will prevent certain language characters from being used here.

Given you say that the characters are working in all out fields then I would be inclined to say that the characters your referring to are actually preventing the script from functioning.

This is something that will be looked it in future releases.

ok i’ll see if i can get tFPDF to work (https://www.fpdf.org/en/script/script92.php) if i understand right all those iconv calls should become obsolete and umlauts should work. will report back

ok, easy fix was to change line 138 to include an iconv

138: $pdf->MultiCell($col_width,5,iconv(‘UTF-8’, ‘windows-1252’, $row[$columns[$c]]),0,$align);

Hey Roadfox,

Yep, this was mentioned a few months ago in another thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/possible-multilanguage-support-issue?replies=7

I just haven’t had the chance to make these modifications as yet however they are on the cards to be done. Thanks for confirming it do work though ??

Hi Ash
yes i saw that thread, but in the end i did not change to tFPDF, all i did was adding an iconv statement in row 138 to the current shipped default template, now at least german and french special chars are working everywhere