PDFwriter problem with charset

Rails
1

hey,

my database had charset latin1, i changed that all to utf8

cuz i had info like
étage => �©tage

and i have changed that to utf8, then when i edit through the site a
location
and enter étage, “étage” will be in the database.

Now my problem is that when i create a pdf, étage is displayed like
�©tage again.
even when i put this in the code
send_data pdf.render, :filename =>“test.pdf”, :type =>
“application/pdf;charset=utf-8”

can anyone help me?

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On 08/12/05, Brutyn N. [email protected] wrote:

my database had charset latin1, i changed that all to utf8

You will need to convert from UTF-8 to Latin 1. PDF::Writer does not
yet support UTF-16, but PDF itself will not support UTF-8 in any case.

-austin

Austin Z. * [email protected]
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