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There is already ticket describing this problem... It's problem f PDF generation vs Fonts used vs UTF-8....
(cannot find releated issue right now)

You can have a look at #1170, but I think there is some difference between Russian and Chinese. Maybe your russian problem is caused by the font used in pdf.

I have the same problem, but while trying to setup new redmine installation, suddenly faced similar problems when tried to setup the database in latin1 charset.
And it seems that this is not redmine or PDF generation problem.
This is the problem of the charset you use in the database. Convert your database to UTF8 and it will work well (I didn't tried as I cant find the proper way to do it with my MySql 5.0 ).

This problem does not related with encoding in mysql database. The problem is in PDF generation.

And what is your solution?

I don't have one yet, but i am working on it :)

Ok, i got russian letters to display correctly in PDF output using this version of rfpdf http://github.com/edwinmoss/rfpdf/tree/master and with several magic tricks.

Interesting but, what was the magic tricks?

• git version of rfpdf
• FreeSans font (i changed default font in ifpdf_helper.rb)
• two obvious fixes, that was needed to make git version of rfpdf to work

thank you for the pointers :)

Still not fixed? Im really suffering from this =(

Michael Mohr: could you precise what are the "two (not so) obvious fixes" please? :)

Are there any changes on this issue? I see that many people are interested for it to be solved.

All advancement is here. I'm trying to work on it on my spare time, but that late piece is missing :)

I will try to make patch with those obvious fixes today later :)

That would be a true pleasure, you don't imagine the number of issue it would close once in trunk. :)

Ok, here are those patches

Thank you, Michael. I tested the fix. It works well.

Hello.
I tested the fix but error accured when I restarted the server.
---error info---
C:/Programs/ruby/rubyprojects/redmine/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_supp
ort/dependencies.rb:263:in `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Actio
nView::Template (NameError)
from C:/Programs/ruby/rubyprojects/redmine/vendor/rails/activesupport/li
b/active_support/dependencies.rb:453:in `const_missing'
from C:/Programs/ruby/rubyprojects/redmine/vendor/plugins/rpdf/environme
nt.rb:19
from C:/Programs/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `gem_original_require'
from C:/Programs/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `require'
from C:/Programs/ruby/rubyprojects/redmine/vendor/rails/activesupport/li
b/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
from C:/Programs/ruby/rubyprojects/redmine/vendor/rails/activesupport/li
b/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
from C:/Programs/ruby/rubyprojects/redmine/vendor/rails/activesupport/li
b/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
from C:/Programs/ruby/rubyprojects/redmine/vendor/plugins/rpdf/init.rb:4
:in `evaluate_init_rb'
... 39 levels...
from C:/Programs/ruby/rubyprojects/redmine/vendor/rails/railties/lib/com
mands/server.rb:39
from C:/Programs/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `gem_original_require'
from C:/Programs/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `require'
from script/server:3

Harry Yamamoto

Have you update rfpdf to the latest git version?

I get the latest version from the URL below .Is it the same latest version as the one from git ?
http://github.com/edwinmoss/rfpdf/zipball/master

Same problem with russian language :(
Does anybody fixed this bug?

1. Replace the rfpdf plugin with the one http://github.com/edwinmoss/rfpdf/zipball/master
2. Apply the attached patch to {REDMINE}/lib/redmine/export/pdf.rb

Kidding? I have no idea how to apply patch. Is it possible to have it included in the next release please?

You can apply it manually. Click on the patch link. You need to replace red coloured lines with the green ones in your pdf.rb file.