What are some potential pitfalls when using fpdf with PHP for displaying special characters like umlauts?

When using fpdf with PHP to display special characters like umlauts, one potential pitfall is that fpdf does not natively support UTF-8 encoding, which can result in garbled or missing characters. To solve this issue, you can use the iconv function to convert the text to ISO-8859-1 encoding before passing it to fpdf. 

$text = "Möglichkeiten"; // Text with umlauts
$text_iso = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT', $text); // Convert text to ISO-8859-1

require('fpdf.php');

$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial', '', 12);
$pdf->Cell(0, 10, $text_iso, 0, 1); // Display text with umlauts in ISO-8859-1 encoding

$pdf->Output();

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fpdf PHP special characters umlauts encoding

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