Chinese punctuation becomes an unrecognizable character(□) when it's in front of english character

[mkitby]

Hi All,

I ran into this problem when mixing english and chinese. For example,

。test

。is the chinese period. The chinese period becomes an unrecognizable character □

[qwe852147]

I have the same trouble .

[Klap-in]

Please could you provide a (small) php example of how you call mpdf?

Which versions (php, mPDF) are you using?

[qwe852147]

I just install "dw2pdf" into my dokuwiki and then use pagetool to export page.

[qwe852147]

Sorry ,this problem has any solution?

[Klap-in]

What is the language setting of our wiki?

The dw2pdf plugin add some settings to the mPDF library for a select set of languages. So I guess that if your wiki is set to one of these, the dw2pdf plugin has better language support for Chinese.

switch($conf['lang']) {
            case 'zh':
            case 'zh-tw':
            case 'ja':
            case 'ko':
                $mode = '+aCJK';
                break;
            default:
                $mode = 'UTF-8-s';
        }
```

[qwe852147]

I use 'zh-tw' but the problem is still appearance.

[Klap-in]

Testing with a sample inputted directly into a standalone mPDF shows that 'mode' => 'zh-tw' let parse you example with the right Chinese character (but the English characters are have now a little strange font)

Trying this in DokuPDF class of dw2pdf doesn't have any effect.

more info about configurations: https://mpdf.github.io/fonts-languages/choosing-a-configuration-v7-x.html

Questions for @qwe852147 and @mkitby:

• Is dw2pdf only export wrong if there are single characters mixed with English?
• Is it working for bigger sections of text?
• Is there any Chinese text that is exported as expected?

So: when is it working, when not?

[qwe852147]

Sorry , I find this error is not about chinese punctuation.
The error will appear when word is full-width.

[Klap-in]

Could you please provide examples of the wiki text?

[qwe852147]

For example use following full-width word
１２３４５６７８９
or
Ｔｅｓｔ

[Klap-in]

Maybe mpdf/mpdf#676 gives more insight in what happens here.

Note to self: mPDF config is at two locations:

• https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki-plugin-dw2pdf/blob/master/DokuPDF.class.php
• https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki-plugin-dw2pdf/blob/master/action.php#L385 in generatePDF()

[zeerd]

Hello, everyone.

Any workaround here? seems it has not been fixed.

I tried to
change the useSubstitutions of ./vendor/mpdf/mpdf/src/Config/ConfigVariables.php to true
And
change the backupSubsFont of ./vendor/mpdf/mpdf/src/Config/FontVariables.php to ['dejavusanscondensed', 'freeserif','freesans','sun-exta']

Nothing changed.

Need I do something else to make the config-changes validable?