Generating PDFs with UTF-8 text requires TrueType fonts

[kriskelly]

The following notice sometimes shows up in the logs when generating report PDFs:

Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in Zend/Pdf/Resource/Font/Simple.php on line 267

According to the following bug report, that is because default PDF fonts only support Latin1 encoding.

The proposed solution is to use TrueType fonts instead of the default fonts. I don't actually know what would be involved in that, but it would be worth investigating, especially if this hobbles the plugin for displaying internationalized text.

[zerocrates]

The DejaVu fonts are the only ones I know of that are freely-licensed and would fit the coverage bill, but even those don't get into, say, the CJK characters as far as I know.

So as it is now, we're stuck with windows-1252, it seems.

[kriskelly]

Probably the quickest workaround would be a config setting for choosing the font.