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Chinese and Japanese characters not printing in 3.16.2-0.12.6-full
Hello, I'm stuck in an issue wherein the wkhtmltopdf prints just tofus for non-ascii characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc). Can you please help me to resolve this issue.
My Dockerfile
FROM surnet/alpine-wkhtmltopdf:3.16.2-0.12.6-full as wkhtmltopdf
FROM ruby:3.0.5-alpine3.16
# RUN apk update -qq && apk add nodejs
#build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev -dev libreadline-dev openssl curl libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev
RUN apk add --update \
build-base \
mariadb-dev \
sqlite-dev \
nodejs \
tzdata \
git \
&& rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
# Install dependencies for wkhtmltopdf
RUN apk add --no-cache \
libstdc++ \
libx11 \
libxrender \
libxext \
libssl1.1 \
ca-certificates \
fontconfig \
freetype \
ttf-dejavu \
ttf-droid \
ttf-freefont \
ttf-liberation \
# more fonts
&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
msttcorefonts-installer \
# Install microsoft fonts
&& update-ms-fonts \
&& fc-cache -f \
# Clean up when done
&& rm -rf /tmp/* \
&& apk del .build-deps
COPY --from=wkhtmltopdf /bin/wkhtmltopdf /bin/wkhtmltopdf
... Rest of the content
wkthmltopdf version is wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (with patched qt)
This is the command I use for testing in bash terminal
wkhtmltopdf --encoding utf-8 - - > ./app/test.pdf <<HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<style>
body {
font-family: sans-serif; /* Specify your preferred font family here */
color: #eb1313;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>€</p>
<p>áéíóúñö</p>
<p>Japanese こんにちは</p>
<p>Chinese 你好</p>
<p>Korean 안녕</p>
<p>Saudi Arabian Currency Symbol is ﷼</p>
<h1> Saudi Arabian Currency Symbol is ﷼ </h1>
<h1> Indian Currency Symbol is ₹</h1>
<H1> European euro Symbol is € </h1>
<h1> United States dollar symbol is $ </h1>
<h1> Chinese Yuan Renminbi symbol is ¥ </h1>
<h1> Kazakhstani tenge symbols is ₸ </h1>
</body>
</html>
HTML
The output pdf file prints tofu for the Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages. test.pdf
Please try with the newest version surnet/alpine-wkhtmltopdf:3.19.0-0.12.6-full and make sure a font with the characters you want to use is installed and correctly registered.
