1. Does the PDF icon render pictures and special characters?
(FAQs/Languages)

Yes! Prior to Joomla! 1.5, only the text values of an Article and only for ISO-8859-1 encoding was allowed in the PDF rendition. With the new PDF library in place, the complete Article including images ...

2. Why does Joomla! 1.5 use UTF-8 encoding?
(FAQs/General)

Well... how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again? Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish? With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) ...

3. How do I upgrade to Joomla! 1.5 ?
(FAQs/Current Users)

... files needed and store locally. Multiple export sets can be created. The exported data is not modified in anyway and the original encoding is preserved. This makes the com_migrator tool a recommended ...