Wicked_pdf: Wickedpdf Encoding

Created on 12 Oct 2015 · 4Comments · Source: mileszs/wicked_pdf

Hi,

I am having the problem of displaying Japanese characters in my pdf. It displays very well in the view files. I am using pdf_from_string command from wicked pdf.
I've tried adding
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
in my view files but still doesn't work

Moreover, I also added
:encoding => 'UTF-8' In the options

Here is the code
Controller

html = render_to_string(:action => :print,:layout => false, encoding: "ISO-8859-15")
pdf = WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(html,:encoding => 'UTF-8',:page_size => 'A4',:footer => { :right => '[date] [time] - page [page] of [topage]', :font_size => '6' })
send_data(pdf,
  :filename    => "print.pdf",
  :encoding => "utf8",
  :disposition => 'attachment')

View

<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- Japanese chars here --> 
   </body>
</html>

fonts

Source

kovloq

Most helpful comment

I had a same your problem and i took a lot of times to find it, but i solved it successfully.
Your problem is missing Japanese fonts. And i think you should do as follow:

Step1: wget http://dl.ipafont.ipa.go.jp/IPAexfont/IPAexfont00301.zip
Step2: unzip IPAexfont00301.zip
Step3: ls -l IPAexfont00301/*ttf

Step4: mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType
Step5: mv -i IPAexfont00301/*ttf /usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/
Step6: ls -l /usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/

Step7: fc-cache -fv
Step8: fc-list | grep IPA

Step9: Restart rails server and see the result

Here is document:
http://qiita.com/metheglin/items/bb88aa25eae250bfa2a2#3-1

And link to download Japanese fonts:
http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/node26#jp

khanhpham1990 on 23 Feb 2016

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Can you include some of the Japanese characters so I could try and reproduce this?

My first thought is maybe the system you are generating the files on may not have Japanese fonts installed.

unixmonkey on 13 Oct 2015

It's Japanese Yen symbol ¥. I was trying to make a sales report in my e-commerce website.
Thank you for your advise. I will try to find it out using your suggestion.

kovloq on 21 Oct 2015