TCPF with unknowned simbols - php

Question

I've this problem with my code.
I'm trying to get the spanish special chars with accents and the "ñ" and "€".
That's my code:
include_once(PLUGINS_PATH . "tcpdf/tcpdf.php");
$pdf = new TCPDF("L", PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, false, 'ISO-8859-1', false);
// Deshabilitando la cabecera
$pdf->setPrintHeader(false);
// Deshabilitando el pie de página
$pdf->setPrintFooter(false);
// Márgenes
$pdf->SetMargins(5, 5, 5);
// Saltos de página automáticos.
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);
// Establecer el ratio para las imagenes que se puedan utilizar
$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);
// Establecer la fuente
$pdf->SetFont('times', 10);
// Añadir pána
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->writeHTMLCell(0, 0, 2, 2, $html, 0);
//Cerramos y damos salida al fichero PDF
return $pdf->Output($pdf_path_name, 'F');
the $html variable contains all the information and when I display with a simple echo $html it well encoded.
I give you one pic with my PDF.
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/9451/kw97.png
Solved the problem displaying european simbols.
But why I'm getting those "??????" simbols?
I give you another pic
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/6342/42th.png
PD: I've been looking for one solution for 3 days and no solution i've found.

Answer 1

You have specified ISO-8859-1 which is more commonly known as Latin-1. Latin-1 does include those characters. But you should specify your coalition/encoding to be UTF-8 which will likely cover all of the special characters you need.
After reading some of the documentation, it doesn't appear that they use the ISO standards to identify the different types of encoding, but it isn't clear.
$pdf = new TCPDF("L", PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);