PDFs garble accents, umlauts and non-Latin text
Accented, umlaut, and non-Latin characters appear as garbled codes or question marks in generated PDFs.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
7 public reports · first reported 9 February 2024 · last reported 19 December 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners writing in French, German, Spanish, Greek, and Chinese report that accented letters, umlauts, and non-Latin characters come out of the generated PDF as UTF-8 escape codes, question marks, or mojibake.
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 7 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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