Charset issue with UTF-8 characters

[Florian Kinder]

I tried following

	// Logo
	pdf.SetFont("Arial", "B", 21)
	pdf.SetXY(2, 2)
	pdf.Cell(40, 10, "KUEGNE+NAGEL")

	// Consignee
	pdf.SetXY(2, 10)
	pdf.SetFont("Arial", "", 8)
	pdf.Cell(10, 10, "Consignee")

	pdf.SetXY(2, 14)
	pdf.SetFont("Arial", "", 10)
	pdf.Cell(10, 10, "Testemfänger")

	pdf.SetXY(2, 18)
	pdf.SetFont("Arial", "", 10)
	pdf.Cell(10, 10, "Testempfänger Straße 1")

	pdf.SetXY(2, 24)
	pdf.SetFont("Arial", "B", 18)
	pdf.Cell(10, 10, "DE 94315")

	pdf.SetXY(2, 30)
	pdf.SetFont("Arial", "", 10)
	pdf.Cell(10, 10, "Straubing")

And this is the result

[Kurt Jung]

You will need to either fuss with code pages (see this example) or load a UTF-8 TrueType font (see this example).

[Florian Kinder]

Ok, but why doesn't it support utf-8 by default?

This is the first golang library where i had encoding issues by default.

[Kurt Jung]

Ok, but why doesn't it support utf-8 by default?

This package was ported from FPDF which itself does not support UTF-8. UTF-8 support in gofpdf was added earlier this year. Additional work will be needed to apply this support to the reader-embedded fonts. Use gopdf if you don't want to bother with code pages.

[Florian Kinder]

Thanks for the info and help, problem solved.