Title: Character encoding issue
Last modified: March 7, 2022

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# Character encoding issue

 *  [Juha Metsäkallas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juhametsakallas/)
 * (@juhametsakallas)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-issue-5/)
 * I have a custom wp-mpdf theme with the meta defintion
 * `<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />`
 * The previous versions of wp-mpdf has given me the umlauted ä and ö as well as
   the Esperanto diacritical letters (ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ) as they are in utf-8.
   I now updated to **WP 5.9.1** and **wp-mpdf 3.7.1** and I get only the umlauted
   letters.
 * This is the same issue as [Greek Characters Encoding Issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greek-characters-encoding-issue/).
 * Addendum
    I had to restore from back-up the whole site since generating PDFs 
   is currently broken. See [https://finnababilejo.fi/artikolo/juha_metsakallas/2022/03/joka-toista-haukkuu-itse-on/](https://finnababilejo.fi/artikolo/juha_metsakallas/2022/03/joka-toista-haukkuu-itse-on/)
 * and try to generate a PDF (button in at the end of the article).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [Juha Metsäkallas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juhametsakallas/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcharacter-encoding-issue-5%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [fkrauthan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fkrauthan/)
 * (@fkrauthan)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-issue-5/#post-15434996)
 * What codepage did you select in the admin page? Maybe verify and try the different
   options to see if that helps.
 *  Thread Starter [Juha Metsäkallas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juhametsakallas/)
 * (@juhametsakallas)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-issue-5/#post-15435102)
 * My theme contains the definition utf-8, my codepage setting is utf-8. And I had
   the encoding working before the update. I have no idea of those other encodings,
   since utf-8 is the correct. What should I check next?
 *  Plugin Author [fkrauthan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fkrauthan/)
 * (@fkrauthan)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-issue-5/#post-15435437)
 * Hmm I think the only other option is to reach out to the developers of the mpdf
   library (the one responsible for converting HTML to PDF) if they have any ideas.
   The only thing that changed in recent updates is a newer MPDF library version(
   to stay within wordpress terms of services)

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 * Last reply from: [fkrauthan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fkrauthan/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-issue-5/#post-15435437)
 * Status: not resolved