Accents when generating invoice PDF and sending email

setzer

Hello, I've just installed ofuz to my server and started to use it and found it awesome. But there's something that is bugging me:
When I create an invoice, if I use accented characters like áéíóú or even a cedilla (ç), the invoice is saved correctly (including at the database) and displayed correctly at its page. However if I send it by email the email body and the attached pdf come with invalid characters replacing the accents. Is this a bug? Or is there something else wrong? My database encoding is UTF-8.
Also, I have one doubt: I've looked at the messages.po file looking for the email contents to translate and haven't found anything. Is there another localization file that I need to translate to my native language? Or is the email body inside a php file?

abhik

@setzer looks like its an issue with the PDF library that we have used to generate the PDF, HTML2FPDF. HTML2FPDF looks like does not take care of the uni-code characters.

We have added this as a bug and will replace the PDF with a new library and will release a patch.

setzer

Thank you! But just for curiosity: since the problem is html2pdf, why does the email also comes with invalid characters in its body?
And is it possible to translate the email body? I haven't found its contents in the messages.po file :s

abhik

Hi setzer, the emails are all defined in the table "emailtemplate".
You can directly update the table to have the content there.

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