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I've spent a couple of days sifting through various methods to encourage FPDF to render the Euro symbol, but none have succeeded. I have: $currency = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", '€'); Which results in: iconv() [function.iconv]: Detected an incomplete multibyte character in input string I've tried a variety of encoding types, but to no avail. You actually can generate a PDF with euro signs using FPDF with using euro ascii code: chr(128) . It's good practice to make this a constant. At the top of your script, add: define('EURO',chr(128)); Now you can use EURO in your script to print

Is it possible to display the Euro symbol in pdfkit for nodejs without having to embed an external font? I am using pdfKit to generate invoices and would like to prefix my currency amounts with the Euro Symbol (€). I've tried a number of approaches and none worked: doc.font('Helvetica-Bold') .fontSize(12) .text('€', 10, 10); // Alt+0128 on keypad doc.font('Helvetica-Bold') .fontSize(12) .text('\u20AC', 10, 10); Turns out it is a font issue: unicode works, but you have to make sure that the font you are using includes the characters you want to use. Unlike your operating system, PDFKit does not