Support German characters ( Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ü,ö, ß ) in magento PDF generation

- We can support German characters such as Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ü,ö, ß in magento PDF generation. Noramlly it won't support.

- In magento pdf generation the characters or text echo like below,

 $page->drawText('Test Message', 530, 250, 'UTF-8');

- But if we tried like this,

$page->drawText(Mage::helper('sales')->__('Geschäftsführer: Jörg Blümel'), 35, 25, 'UTF-8');

- it won't display the german characters, for this we need to change the character format 'UTF-8' to 'CP1252' .


$page->drawText(Mage::helper('sales')->__('Geschäftsführer: Jörg Blümel'), 35, 25, 'CP1252');