Wicked_pdf and utf8 symbol

Question

In my generated pdf I get this

0,00 €

instead of

0,00 €

Application.html.erb

  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

show.html.erb

<%=number_to_currency item.total%>

Hysterectomy

Answer 1

respond_to do |format|
  format.html { render template: 'invoices/show' }
  format.pdf  do
    render pdf: 'invoices/show',
           template: 'invoices/show', 
           formats: :HTML, 
           encoding: 'utf8'
  end
end

Hysterectomy

You can also put same setting encoding: 'utf8' into your initializers\wicked_pdf config file – Volney

Answer 2

Still i can see the special characters in the PDF. Below is my code

pdf = WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(page_html,:page_size => "A3") 

  send_data(pdf, 
    :filename => "my_pdf_name.pdf", 
    :formats => 'HTML', 
    :encoding => 'utf8',
    :disposition => 'attachment') 
  end

Hanna

I use this format.pdf do render pdf: "invoice", layout: 'layouts/metronic/blank.pdf', template: 'invoices/show', formats: :html, encoding: 'utf8' end – Hysterectomy

Check for valid HTML doctype – Hysterectomy

Yes, I am using the format as HTML and utf8 as encoding. Can you just tell, what's wrong with the above code snippet – Hanna

Answer 3

config/initializers/wicked_pdf.rb

  WickedPdf.config = {
    encoding: 'utf8'
  }

Henka