title: generating a pdf file with utf8 characters with mpdf
body: <p>I'm trying to create a pdf file with mpdf and send it by e-mail.
  The file is written in both english and hebrew.
  I've got the file to be created correctly when I open it on the browser (with <code>$mpdf-&gt;output()</code>):
  <a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/SDZ5L.png" rel="nofollow">this is how it lloks like when it works</a>
   but then when I try opening it with the pdf viewer or when I try sending it with php mailer with addStringAttachment($stringAttachment , filename.pdf) all the hebrew comes out as just a bunch of rectangles:
  <a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/p32HM.png" rel="nofollow">this is how it looks when it doesnt work</a>
  this is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?php
  //$htmlResult is set to be the pdf page - written in html.
  
  $mpdf = new mPDF('utf-8' , 'A4-P');
  
  $mpdf-&gt;WriteHTML($htmlResult);
  $fileName = "report".$formatedFromDate.'-'.$formatedToDate;
  $mpdf-&gt;Output("1234.pdf" , "D");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>when I try to send it with phpMailer:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$stringPdf = $mpdf-&gt;Output("1234.pdf" , "S");
  $body = " ";
  $subject = $fileName;
  
  FunctionPool::sendEmail($emailAddress, $body, $subject , $stringPdf ,$fileName);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and the function sendMail:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public static function sendEmail ($emailAddress , $body , $subject , $stringAttachments = NULL , $fileName = NULL) {
  
  
          //SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP time zone MUST be set
          //This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that
          date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Jerusalem');
          require_once __DIR__.'/variables.php';
          require_once __DIR__.'/PHPMailerMaster/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
          require_once __DIR__.'/PHPMailerMaster/class.phpmailer.php';
          require_once __DIR__.'/PHPMailerMaster/class.phpmaileroauthgoogle.php';
          require_once __DIR__.'/settings.php';
          //Create a new PHPMailer instance
          $mail = new PHPMailer;
          //Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
          $mail-&gt;CharSet = "utf-8";
          $mail-&gt;isSMTP();
  
          //Enable SMTP debugging
          // 0 = off (for production use)
          // 1 = client messages
          // 2 = client and server messages
          $mail-&gt;SMTPDebug = 2;
          if (1 != $underDevelopment) {
              $mail-&gt;SMTPDebug = 0;
          }
  
          //Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
          $mail-&gt;Debugoutput = 'html';
  
          //Set the hostname of the mail server
          //$mail-&gt;Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
  
          // use
          $mail-&gt;Host = gethostbyname('smtp.gmail.com');
          // if your network does not support SMTP over IPv6
          //Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
          $mail-&gt;Port = 587;
          //Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
          $mail-&gt;SMTPSecure = 'tls';
          //Whether to use SMTP authentication
          $mail-&gt;SMTPAuth = true;
          //$mail-&gt;SMTPAutoTLS = false;        
          $mail-&gt;SMTPOptions = array(
              'ssl' =&gt; array(
              'verify_peer' =&gt; false,
              'verify_peer_name' =&gt; false,
              'allow_self_signed' =&gt; true
              )
          );
  
  
          //Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
          $serversEmailAddress = **************@gmail.com";
          $serversEmailPassword = "**************";
          $systemsName = "**************";
  
          $mail-&gt;Username = $serversEmailAddress;
          //Password to use for SMTP authentication
          $mail-&gt;Password = $serversEmailPassword;
          //Set who the message is to be sent from
          $mail-&gt;setFrom($serversEmailAddress , $systemsName);
          //Set an alternative reply-to address
          $mail-&gt;addReplyTo($serversEmailAddress, $systemsName);
          //Set who the message is to be sent to
          $mail-&gt;addAddress($emailAddress);
          //Set the subject line
          $mail-&gt;Subject = $subject;
          //Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
          //convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
          $mail-&gt;msgHTML($body/*file_get_contents('contents.html'), dirname(__FILE__)*/);
          //Replace the plain text body with one created manually
          $mail-&gt;AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
  
  
  
          if ($stringAttachments != NULL) {
              if ($fileName == NULL) {
                  $fileName = "report";
              }
              $mail-&gt;addStringAttachment($stringAttachments , $fileName.".pdf");
          }
  
          //send the message, check for errors
          if (!$mail-&gt;send()) {
              echo "error: " . $mail-&gt;ErrorInfo;
          } else {
              return "sent";
          }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I send an e-mail with a pdf attached (also in hebrew) it works just fine.
  I thought I'd save a temp file, and then send it, but then I discovered that I can view the file proparly only from the browser.  </p>