Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded

[zakariayad]

why keep getting this error message (Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded) even that i've set my blade meta charset ( ), and i can see in the request header that the encoding method is UTF_8, i did install the package correctly, why is that hapening and how can i solve that.

[TigselemaAlex]

try this return response()->streamDownload(function () use ($pdf) { echo $pdf->stream(); }, 'name.pdf');

[zakariayad]

try this return response()->streamDownload(function () use ($pdf) { echo $pdf->stream(); }, 'name.pdf');

it works for me thank you, but i wish if you could tell me what was the problem

[risangbaskoro]

Any explanation on why the problem occurred? @TigselemaAlex

[parallels999]

bytes vs raw text

[TigselemaAlex]

Any explanation on why the problem occurred? @TigselemaAlex

I'm not a Laravel expert, but I think it's because it's trying to show in a view the pdf data stream and that's why this error occurs. The only solution I found was that.

[dulshan-devops]

try this return response()->streamDownload(function () use ($pdf) { echo $pdf->stream(); }, 'name.pdf');

Its worked for me.But not showing svg files.

[themegazord]

It worked for me too. But, it would be nice for the error to be handled directly a lib.

[rpringadi]

It's April 2024 I still got tripped by this issue.

I confirm that the solution posted by @TigselemaAlex works but as @themegazord said, it would be nice to have this fixed in the lib.

"barryvdh/laravel-dompdf": "2.1.1"

PHP Version
8.2.x

Laravel Version
10.48.4

Alpine Version
3.13.8

Theme
Tailwind 3.x

[mr-abdellah]

try this return response()->streamDownload(function () use ($pdf) { echo $pdf->stream(); }, 'name.pdf');

Bro thanks a lot you saved my life <3

[jazzy1986]

facing the same problem, @TigselemaAlex solution work ! genius.