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wkhtmltopdf writes greek characters as "?" question mark symbol. For example, "Παράδοσης" turns to "??a??d?s??" in pdf #1840

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vijayaganeshd opened this issue Jul 8, 2014 · 2 comments
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wkhtmltopdf writes greek characters as "?" question mark symbol. For example, "Παράδοσης" turns to "??a??d?s??" in pdf #1840

vijayaganeshd opened this issue Jul 8, 2014 · 2 comments
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@vijayaganeshd vijayaganeshd changed the title wkhtmltopdf writes greek characters as "?" mark symbol. For example, "Παράδοσης" turns to "??a??d?s??" wkhtmltopdf writes greek characters as "?" question mark symbol. For example, "Παράδοσης" turns to "??a??d?s??" in pdf Jul 8, 2014
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ashkulz commented Jul 8, 2014

Please post your OS/platform, version, and sample HTML/CSS.

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kachkaev commented Jul 9, 2014

@vijayaganeshd, try starting your html with:

<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">

I had the same problem for Cyrillic letters, but it was immediately solved after defining the charset of a page. Make sure the html file itself also has the utf8 encoding.

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