sure, i know fpdf can deal with asian character like Chinese, but it can't work with utf-8 charactor so that i have to replace it with tcpdf. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27 March 2010 17:50, solo hsi <xzyyyy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> now i'm re-writing some script to output pdf files. the original code >> is based on fpdf, but as you know, fpdf can't deal with the characters >> in utf8. > > From http://www.fpdf.org/?lang=en > > "What languages can I use? > > The class can produce documents in many languages other than the > Western European ones: Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Baltic and > Thai, provided you own TrueType or Type1 fonts with the desired > character set. Chinese, Japanese and Korean are supported too." > > So, if you have the font for it, you should be able to encode the data > easily enough. No matter what encoding you are using, unless the font > you want to use has a glyph for it, you can't use it. This is more > often the problem I've found. > > Regards, > > Richard. > -- > ----- > Richard Quadling > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" > EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html > EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp > Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 > ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling > -- solo(xzyyyy@xxxxxxxxx) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php