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Hi , I am facing an issue in pdf generation. that sometimes frech and spanish letters getting eliminated from the document generated , letters like à, é. ó. I am using clean fucntion before passing the sentences to do document template. If I don't use clean the generated document dont even getting saved in the process output even for english templates. Below is smart services I use to get the pdf generated.
This is how it appear in the grid
This is how it looks when printed,
Is there any way to fix this.
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Could it be that you are using a custom font? If yes, does this font include the glyphs for these letters?
Hi Stefan Helzle I am using the Tahoma font in the template html expression. But I am not aware of the glyphs or how to include it to the template.
Glyphs are the visuals symbols for each character included in the font file. There is no way to add them. Try to use the default font for testing.
Hi Stefan Helzle the elimination happening in the interface even before passed to template since the dynamic values are selected and save in ri later passed to template. while saving itself Im using clean function.
Don't use clean(). It strips accented letters (à, é, ó) along with the invalid characters. The document only fails to save because of invalid XML control characters in the source text, so remove just those with regexreplaceall("[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F]", yourText, "") and keep the template UTF-8 encoded. Few Samples
a!localVariables( local!samples: { "Gerente, Revisión de Crédito", "Café à la française", "Bad" & char(8) & "control" & char(11) & "chars", "Mix: José" & char(8) & " García ó" }, a!forEach( items: local!samples, expression: { withClean: clean(fv!item), withRegex: regexreplaceall("[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F]", fv!item, "") } ) )