mPDF Open Sans字体无法呈现一些德语字母

Question

I am trying to generate PDF with the german word "möchte" (the letter ö is the issue here).. using the font that I added(Open Sans) in /ttfonts folder and set it on config_fonts.php..

"open_sans" => array(
    'B' => "OpenSans-Bold.ttf",
    'BI' => "OpenSans-BoldItalic.ttf",
    'EB' => "OpenSans-ExtraBold.ttf",
    'EBI' => "OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf",
    'I' => "OpenSans-Italic.ttf",
    'L' => "OpenSans-Light.ttf",
    'LI' => "OpenSans-LightItalic.ttf",
    'R' => "OpenSans-Regular.ttf",
    'SB' => "OpenSans-Semibold.ttf",
    'SBI' => "OpenSans-SemiboldItalic.ttf",
        'useOTL' => 0xFF,
        'useKashida' => 75,
    )

I also read https://mpdf.github.io/fonts-languages/fonts-in-mpdf-6-x.html and tried modifying config_lang2fonts.php .. I even set it everything to open_sans

$unifont = "open_sans";
return array($coreSuitable ,$unifont);

PS: The font file Open Sans I downloaded is already no subsetting.

But the output is still not like as I expected, it shows:

PHP

$mpdf = new mPDF('','A4','','open_sans' , 30 , 12 , 12 , 12 , 10 , 10);

Mark Up

@font-face{
font-family:open_sans;
src: url('mypath/mpdf60/ttfonts/OpenSans-Regular.ttf');
}

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I tried using the default fonts of mPDF like dejavusans, It works perfectly. But what I need is Open Sans. Did I miss a configuration in mPDF or what? What is the problem?

Answer 1

The fact that you see a regular o followed by an unknown character strongly suggests the second character is a single non-spacing diaeresis, not available in the font you are using.

Checking the character sets of DejaVu Sans and Open Sans proves my hunch is right. DejaVu Sans does contain a 'COMBINING DIAERESIS' U+0308: ¨. OpenSans does not.

Use Unicode Normalization on your input text to replace the sequence o+¨ with its composite character ö U+00F6. The same goes for ä U+00E4 and ü O+00FC.