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Non-Latin characters break PDF generation

Generated PDFs fail or hang when the form contains Cyrillic or Chinese characters.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 24 June 2022 · last reported 6 March 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners writing in Russian, Chinese and other non-Latin languages say the plugin does not handle their characters in generated PDFs.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.