rails, wicked-pdf gem and é à ö characters showing incorrectly

Question

When I generate a PDF with text containing characters such as é è à and so on I do get funny characters instead.

I know this must be related to encoding.

I did try force_encoding("UTF-8") on the string with those characters with no success.

joel

Answer 1

Add <meta charset="UTF-8"> to the top of your HTML view or in the head of your layout.

Answer 2

You can pass as option:

encoding: 'utf8'