Hello,
I have a requirement where I want to build a html file out of a template which would have some special characters i.e Greek characters.
The html file is generated properly and even the alphabets are also displayed eg: alpha , beta etc.
But when the same file is converted to PDF using the HTML to PDF plugin the Greek alphabets are not displayed.
We are currently using:
Can any one suggest what we can do here ,any configuration we can use?
Regards,
Salil Raje
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In the generated HTML, how are the greek characters represented? Can you share a HTML snippet?
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><p>β</p></td> ,
Here the Character Beta is not displayed in the converted PDF.
What you’ve shown (<td><p>β</p></td>) is a visual representation of the character in the HTML — but it doesn’t tell us how the character is actually encoded at the byte level in the file.
<td><p>β</p></td>
To properly verify the encoding, especially for special characters like Greek letters, it’s important to open the generated HTML file in a hex editor (or a text editor that can show the file encoding). That way you can check whether the character β is truly encoded as UTF-8 (which would be CE B2 in hex) or something else (like Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1).
β
CE B2
Also — where is this character coming from in your case? Is it hardcoded in the template, or dynamically inserted from Appian (e.g., from a rule input or database)? If it’s coming from Appian, and your template is correctly encoded as UTF-8, it should normally be handled as Unicode without issues — so the problem may lie with the font used during PDF rendering.
Confirmed. Yeah, I did a small test using a Greek lorem ipsum text. I see the Greek letters in the HTML, but only ### in the PDF.
Could be a font issue. I tried unicode characters and HTML entities. Did not work. I do not have a solution at the moment.
this text is dynamically generated and the text <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><p>β</p></td> is copied from notepad only
thanks for confirmation Stefan Helzle , please keep me posted if you get the solution
I suggest to post on the AppMarket Page of the plugin, asking the author to investigate this issue.
I also did a test with Chinese characters which also failed.
sure , thanks