Iconv::IllegalSequence when printing € char

[abruneel]

Hi,

I'm creating a pdf document with your wonderfull tool.

I'm french and I have to print some prices on my documents. So I need to print the prices in Euro with '€' character. But when doing so I have an Iconv error or 'â¬' printed instead.

I tried to change, in rghost configuration, the font encoding and charset convert but nothing changed.

Is this an issue or a configuration problem from me?

ps: I tried with several fonts too.

Thanks for your time.

[shairontoledo]

Hi, Have you ever tried generate the encoding test with your string?

RGhost::Config.encode_test("your string").render :pdf, :filename => "/tmp/foo.pdf"

And also try disable the iconv before create your document.

RGhost::Config::GS[:charset_convert]=nil

[abruneel]

Hi, I tried what you said but it either made an error (with the charset_convert) or print me 'â¬' instead of '€'.

A colleague of mine found where this come form!

The ISO-8859-1 doesn't contain the '€' character; it has been added in the ISO-8859-15.

I juste had to add this line in the configuration : RGhost::Config::GS[:charset_convert]=lambda {|text| Iconv::iconv('ISO-8859-15','"UTF-8//TRANSLIT1', text)}

Thanks for your help.

[cmager]

Hi,

i ran into the same issue, but can't get it work. The Euro symbol won't be displayed and all other special characters like German äöü, too. I'm always getting this error: "\xE4" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)

what i have tried so far:

1) RGhost::Config::GS[:charset_convert]=nil 2) RGhost::Config::GS[:charset_convert]=lambda {|text| Iconv::iconv('ISO-8859-15','UTF-8//TRANSLIT1', text).first.to_s} and some other combinations 3) doc = Document.new(..., :font_encoding => "UTF-8") 4) adding # encoding: UTF-8 to the .rb file 5) text_var.force_encdoding("UTF-8") to all variables i want to assign to the output PDF

i'd be really glad if somebody could help me. i'm running ruby 1.9.2 and rails 3.1.1. thx, Christian.

[shairontoledo]

can you wrap up this code in a file and send it to me in pvt? shairon.toledo at gmail