tcpdf encode chinese character

Question

I am using tcpdf to create a pdf, but it cant show chinese character, instead it just show square box. I used this example that provided by them and then changed the cache/utf8test.txt to chinese character but it show "square box". How am I solve this?

Answer 1

You need to use unicode supporting font, like you can use stsongstdlight font for chinese. Hope it helps

Answer 2

try this

$pdf->SetFont('kozminproregular', '', 12);

It just helped me. Hope it also helps u.

Answer 3

I managed to get it to work with the Arial Unicode font.

$pdf->SetFont('arialuni', '', 12);

Only issue is it's $165 http://www.fonts.com/font/ascender/arial-unicode

Answer 4

I found this copy all files to tcpdf/fonts and now I can just use it with $pdf->SetFont('DroidSansFallback', '', 8, '', false);