Problems with FPDF and Euro symbol

Question

I've spent a couple of days sifting through various methods to encourage FPDF to render the Euro symbol, but none have succeeded. I have:

$currency = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", '€');

Which results in:

iconv() [function.iconv]: Detected an incomplete multibyte character in input string

I've tried a variety of encoding types, but to no avail.

Can you please check the answers again and reconsider which is actually the correct answer? — Gerard de Visser, Jan 28 '16 at 13:06
I'm not sure why I marked one as being correct because nothing I tried worked. I've removed the tick from the first answer. — Wayne Smallman, Jan 28 '16 at 13:16
Perhaps you would like to edit your answer and explain the discussion here, so it's clear to everyone else? — Wayne Smallman, Jan 28 '16 at 13:27

Gerard de Visser · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-07T12:53:34.890

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You actually can generate a PDF with euro signs using FPDF with using euro ascii code: chr(128).

It's good practice to make this a constant. At the top of your script, add:

define('EURO',chr(128));

Now you can use EURO in your script to print the euro symbol. For example:

"Costs: ".EURO.100

Will output: Costs: €100

Note: This will also work for other symbols with chr(ascii), where ascii is the ascii code of the symbol.

edited Jul 07 '21 at 12:53

answered Aug 22 '14 at 09:18

Gerard de Visser

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Why not just `"Costs: " . chr(128)`? Also, this should be the accepted answer, not the one promoting a different extension. – kasimir Oct 29 '14 at 12:24
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Because `chr(128)` does not make any sense to someone whose reading your code. `EURO` does. You can upvote the answer if you like it to be the accepted answer. – Gerard de Visser Oct 29 '14 at 12:36
`chr(128)` makes sense to me... I think my gripe is that your answer starts with instructing us to define it as a constant, where I would see that as 'optional'. You could just as well define it as a variable, or use a function or what not. The key is getting the symbol by using the `chr` function. I think your answer should focus on that. – kasimir Oct 30 '14 at 09:00
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This is much better than using an extension. I need to add the pound sign, (£) which is `chr(163)` if anyone was wondering. – Chud37 Apr 15 '15 at 12:22
The trouble I'm having with this answer is that ASCII actually ends at 127. Anything above is a subject to several non-compatible extensions. While this solution will work on most systems with Windows-12xx codepages, it might break somewhere else. – Mchl Feb 02 '16 at 07:04

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '17 at 16:51

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I've searched for ages, and nothing worked - until I used this: utf8_encode(chr(128))

answered Apr 04 '17 at 16:51

Zaph

Thank you. The additional utf8_encode was also required for me – Stefan S Oct 30 '20 at 13:41

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 06 '19 at 15:02

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the iconv function worked for me

$text = "String with € sign"    
$pdfobj->Write(0,iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', $text));

answered Nov 06 '19 at 15:02

termigrator

score -3 · Answer 4 · answered May 12 '16 at 07:42

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if You Want to show this line "£4.30" just follow bellow

$text = chr(163); $pound = $text."4.30 p m";

Note: 163 = pound code;

answered May 12 '16 at 07:42

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