Defect #12309: rfpdf fails to include htmlentities gem, even when installed, thus potentially corrupting pdf output - Redmine

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Defect #12309

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Closed

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PDF export

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wiking has a few default behaviors for replacing quotes ("'"), short and long dashes with their htmlentities representations:
- ' => ’
- -- => –
- --- => —
rfpdf should convert these htmlentities back to UTF characters, but fails
results a PDF output which, e.g. in French, it's barely readable ( "it's" ==> "it’s; "je l'ai" => "je l’ai") etc.

Investigation results:

it came out that rfpdf fails to load the htmlentities gem. There is code to (optionnaly) do it in rfpdf/init.rb, but, even when htmlentities is correctly installed, the loading of that module fails.
in the local configuration, in order to load htmlentities as installed with gem, one has to
```
require 'rubygems'
require 'htmlentities'
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Only the second is not enough.
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