arabic characters being shown as ????

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arabic characters being shown as ????

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hi,

some posts on the website i have contain arabic, but in the generated pdf, the arabic is replaced with question marks.

any idea how i can fix this?

thanks, Joe

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Re: arabic characters being shown as ????

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Hi, you need to include some font which includes arabic characters, see:

https://www.phoca.cz/documents/49-phoca ... -component

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Re: arabic characters being shown as ????

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ahh, as it turns out i just used dejavu sans condensed which has arabic characters from here: https://www.phoca.cz/download/category/ ... apdf-fonts

thanks for the reply!
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Hi, great to hear it.

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