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<cfhtmltopdf> and special caracter

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Status/Resolution/Reason: To Fix//BugVerified

Reporter/Name(from Bugbase): Christophe Girodon / Christophe Girodon (Christophe Girodon)

Created: 11/23/2016

Components: Document Management, PDF Generation (CFHTML2PDF)

Versions: 2016

Failure Type:

Found In Build/Fixed In Build: CF2016_Update3 /

Priority/Frequency: Major / All users will encounter

Locale/System: ALL / Win 2008 Server R2 64 bit

Vote Count: 0

Problem Description: Special character replaced by another character when using <cfhtmltopdf> 

Steps to Reproduce:
<cfprocessingdirective pageencoding = "utf-8">
<cfhtmltopdf unit="cm" margintop="1" marginbottom="1" marginleft="1" marginright="1" orientation="portrait" pagetype="a4">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head><InvalidTag charset="utf-8"></head>
<body>
Display block caracter : &#9608;
</body>
</cfhtmltopdf>

Actual Result: in the pdf file, the broken bar caracter (&brvbar;) is diplayed

Expected Result: in the pdf file, we should have the block caracter (&#9608;)

Any Workarounds:

----------------------------- Additional Watson Details -----------------------------

Watson Bug ID:	4198045

External Customer Info:
External Company:  
External Customer Name: Christophe Girodon
External Customer Email:  
External Test Config: My Hardware and Environment details: CF2016 on Windows computers (Windows 10 computer and Windows Server 2012 R2)

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