[tlug] What's the deal with these encodings? (Was: Japanese font for PDF files)

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

TLUG,

With CL's advice, I've settled on trying to get MS Mincho to be my font
of choice for creating PDF files with PHP.

After wresting with settings for a while, my Japanese text is still
coming out as mojibake, and I think it's because the encoding is off.

Apparently I need to create a .z file that contains the font that gets
rendered in the PDF. That can be done manually or with this online
converter:

http://fpdf.fruit-lab.de/

The thing is that it asks for these "Maps"... things like "cp1252",
"iso-8859-1", or "koi8-u".

I recognize iso-8859-1 and similar as being Latin based encodings, but I
can't figure out what the deal on the others is.

There seems to be no option for Japanese and/or utf-8 encodings.

What encoding am I supposed to use to get Japanese into my PDF files?

Any advice would be much appreciated.


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Dave M G
http://tlug.jp/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Dave_M_G