Level 30
@polarcubs what exactly do you get instead of the tick sign? Some more info and actual code would be appreciated and help us help you. :)
Feb 16, 2015
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Level 40
Tick sign in laravel DOMPDF
Hi,
I was trying to use the Laravel DOMPDF package and for some reasons, I am unable to get the tick sign displayed and wonder how do I actually get it out.
The symbol I'm referring to is ✔.
Level 40
Hi @toniperic. I get empty (no symbol).
Actual code wise will be a generic view file in html. Which DOMPDF uses to generate the PDF.
a simple sample would be
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>✔</p>
<p>Other common characters such as euro sign work!</p>
</body>
</html>
Level 65
Need to use UTF-8 (probably unicode not general)
Level 40
Hi @bashy
I did specify UTF-8 as seen in the code example above. Or did I miss out something else?
Level 30
@polarcubs try changing
<meta charset="UTF-8">
to
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
It's from the official docs, worth a try.
Level 65
It wouldn't be blank if you're displaying (and returning) it in UTF-8 unicode. Have you checked it's storing the character properly?
Level 40
Hi @toniperic, I changed to that and it still doesn't work.
@bashy I think I did it correctly. I tried other signs like euro sign and it works. but for check mark nothing appears. I tried to use the HTML entity code as well (✔)
Wondering if I need to install custom fonts to solve this.
Level 40
Hi all, this is solved after a trip to dompdf discussion group itself
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dompdf/UE2ISFHYYuE
Thank you!
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Level 8
Some day that link won't work anymore....
Here is the solution and one more extra for 'wrong'
<div style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">✔</div>
<div style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">✗</div>
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