[Mapbender-users] German 'Umlauts' in PDF-Print

[Christoph Baudson]

Michael Schulz schrieb:
> Hi Ronald,
>
> I have filed a ticket concerning a similar problem, that one will face
> when using i18n with printPDF:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapbender/ticket/265
>
> I am not even sure if this is a problem related only to the encoding,
> but maybe also to the font used in pdf printing. If it were "only"
> encoding problems, then we didn't have to use this special character
> array you'll find in mod_printPDF_pdf.php. But I agree, that pdf only
> works with iso-8859-1 characters.
>
>   

For those who didn't follow the ticket status:

Text strings to be included in the PDF are now utf8_decoded. This is 
only a temporary solution, as Mapbender 2.5 only supports english and 
german. In the long run, we need a PDF lib that uses an UTF8 font.

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapbender/changeset/2772

This is considered a workaround only.


> Cheers, Michael
>
>
>
> 2008/8/6 Ronald Woita <Ronald.Woita at rostock.de>:
>   
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> thanks for your reply Marc-
>> 'file printPDF.conf' only delivers this result--> PHP text File,
>> but 'less printPDF.conf' displays correct characters on a bash.
>> But if I convert the string to ISO-8859-1 (see below) everything is fine ?!
>>
>> -->
>>
>> # labeling
>> if(CHARSET=="UTF-8"){
>>        $new_comment1 = utf8_decode($_REQUEST["comment1"]);
>>        $new_comment2 = utf8_decode($_REQUEST["comment2"]);
>> }
>> else{
>>        $new_comment1 = $_REQUEST["comment1"];
>>        $new_comment2 = $_REQUEST["comment2"];
>> }
>>
>> $text1 = utf8_decode("GeoPort.HRO");
>> $text2 = utf8_decode"das GeodatenPortal für die";
>> $text3 = utf8_decode"Hansestadt Rostock und Umgebung";
>> $text4 = utf8_decode"";
>> $text5 = utf8_decode("Maßstab ca. 1:"). " ".$_REQUEST["map_scale"];
>>
>> <--
>>
>> If I understand this in the correct manner, then the pdf class seems to use ISO encoding ?
>>
>> greets
>> Ronald
>>
>>     
>>>>> jansen.marc at gmx.de 06.08.2008 10:01 >>>
>>>>>           
>> Hi Ronald,
>>
>> when you edited the printPDF.conf, did you save the file UTF8-encoded?
>>
>> What is the output of:
>> file printPDF.conf
>> (on a linux-prompt, assuming your installation is running on a linux system)
>>
>> Have you tried e.g. iconv? (make sure you've got a backup)
>>
>> --Marc
>>
>>
>>
>> Ronald Woita schrieb:
>>     
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I'm still working on the pdf printing process...
>>> There is text with 'umlauts'  in my printPDF.conf, but these 'umlauts'
>>> does'nt display correct in the pdf-document.
>>> I just tried to replace the 'umlauts' with html notation, but this
>>> does'nt work too.
>>> The whole system enviroment is configured as UTF-8, eg. OS, database,
>>> Apache... so I don't know, what's the cause of it.
>>> Does anybody get an idea, how to solve this issue ?
>>>
>>> Mapbender 2.5 rc5
>>> PostgreSql 8.3
>>> UTF-8
>>>
>>>
>>> greets
>>> Ronald
>>>
>>>
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