Support: iso-8859-1 encoding to utf-8

Hi to everybody,

I'm having encoding problems when i try to create the PDF, this is the result.
Notice: iconv() [function.iconv]: Detected an illegal character in input string in /var/www/web8/web/pdf/converter.class.php on line 16

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/web8/web/pdf/converter.class.php:16) in /var/www/web8/web/pdf/destination._http.class.php on line 12

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/web8/web/pdf/converter.class.php:16) in /var/www/web8/web/pdf/destination._http.class.php on line 16

As i could check around it, and this is what i'm using for:

BBDD MySQL 5.0.24a with the database in UTF8
Simpleinvoces Version: 20070829 stable

I detect that when i put españa in the customers details, it brokes... so i change it to españa and it works properly... but then when i enter again to check for examples the details of my customers and save the changes, the second time the details is changed to UTF8 so then, when i try to create the pdf it brokes in the same way.... it happens with ó, í, á...... ñ and so on....

Maybe someone have resolved already this problem, but in my cafe i'm unable to do it.

Thanks for your good and fantastic application.

Antton

Thanks Justin,

I'll be here... waiting for some answer

;)

Antton

Thanks Eric & Antton,

Eric,
- are you using ISO-8859-1 as your browser character encoding?

I'm using iso-8859-1 and put all these äãå Ô åæ ó style characters into the notes of an invoice and its printing fine
- note: using the gnome character map tool to get those characters as there not on my keyboard
- note: i don't have a great understanding of how all these different character sets play together so that doesn't help this situation to much :)

can someone try and let me know if you get the same errors as eric and antton

Cheers

Justin

Hi Justin thanks for answering.
My browser is generally automatic detection, and sometimes UTF8, and, as far I know, I don't have any "strange" caracter on my invoices.

If that can help, I asked to my server admin, who told me that he found on the oficial php website :
"|If you get this error message: "Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in file.php on line x", and your text or database is likely to contain text copied from Microsoft Word documents, it's very likely that the error is because of the evil 0x96 "long dash" character. MS Word as default converts all double hyphens into this illegal character. The solution is either to convert 0x96 (dash) into the regular 0x2d (hyphen/minus), or to append the //TRANSLIT or //IGNORE parameters (se above)."

He tried //TRANSLIT or //IGNORE but nothing changed.

Other point : where can I changed the decimal point (0.00) by a decimal coma (0,00) as we used here ?
Thanks again,

Eric

re decimal point stuff

as yet there is no easy way re change number formatting

- if you open up the default invoices template (./temnplates/invoices/default/template.tpl) in a text editor and have a look for the number values

ie.
{$invoiceItem.tax_amount|number_format:2}

you will see it uses phps number_format

if you go to http://au2.php.net/number_format you can find out how to replace . with , etc..

just has to be done manually for now till i look at using a proper internationalisation system to do it all automatically

cheers

justin

Hi again, about exporting pdf problem above, I just understood it came from use of € symbol in invoice template. With the $ it's fine. Looking for a way to fix that.

Hey Eric,

can you try changing the font of the invoice template to Arial

edit ./templates/invoices/default/style.css

from
body { background: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Veranda, San-Serif, Arial; }
to
body { background: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; }

and see if that works with Euro symbol

let us kow how you go

Cheers

Justin

Thanks Don,

re email as another format
- there has been some discussions of late here in the forums about getting this working
- im not a fan of inline html in the email to display invoice detail as each email client renders html differently
- this is still a work-in-progress

re PDF
- we use tufats.com html2pdf as our PDF maker
-- http://www.tufat.com/s_html2ps_html2pdf.htm

if you could have a quick search through their forum http://forum.tufat.com/forumdisplay.php?f=58
- ive had a search but can't anything to useful

let us know if you find out any info

Cheers

Justin