Hello, my invoice from Contabo shows "Total: �50.00" instead of euro symbol The amount is correct but my accountant is confused
This is minor but please fix if possible Thank you
IP is fine, only PDF broken
Contabo invoice PDF has broken encoding
kate3
Member
Classic encoding mismatch. They're probably generating PDFs with a legacy library that assumes Latin-1, then stuffing UTF-8 characters into it. The virtualization tax extends to billing stacks, apparently.
Contabo has been around since 2019. Same invoice template since then?
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KIDDO, LISTEN. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU RUN A HOSTING COMPANY ON SHIT-LOGIC. CONTABO IS PROBABLY USING SOME ANCIENT PHP LIBRARY FROM 2014. I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE. EXCLAMATION MARKS FOR NOTHING!
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LichunLars
Member
Not latency-related, but I checked. Contabo's invoice PDF loads from contabo.com with this route:
traceroute to contabo.com
1 192.168.1.1 0.5ms
2 core-london 12ms
3 cdn-edge 14msRoute via Vultr CDN adds 12ms to static assets. The PDF itself is 45KB, server-side generated. Slow for what it is.
1ms or I don't want it
tomchan
Member
Import pikepdf
Pdf = pikepdf.open("broken.pdf")
Pdf.save("fixed.pdf")It actually works. Pikepdf re-encodes the font subset properly. The euro symbol renders clean now. 🔧
Contabo's been using the same reportlab template since 2020, someone on their forum found the commit history. Six years. Wild.
works on my bench ¯\_(ツ)_/¯