ITextSharp special characters (PDF)

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Hey people of the CP world :-),

I want to know if anybody can assist me with itextsharp that does not print special characters. The problem I am having is that I use ITextSharp to generate pdf documents, but special characters just gets ignore totally.

Like for instance I put in name and surname field: Jessië Strongfièld

On the pdf it just prints Jessi Strongfild.

Does anyone have an extension or some kind of fix around this?

Posted 1-Apr-14 23:06pm

CBadger

Updated 1-Apr-14 23:32pm

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Solution 1

I think this has something to do with Unicode. Convert the string to Unicode , before printing to a PDF .

Posted 2-Apr-14 0:43am

SujayG

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nandakishoreroyal · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-02T00:45:00

Solution 2

Please refer the following Link

Posted 2-Apr-14 0:45am

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CBadger 4-Apr-14 9:46am

I see now I also got that link so thanks. :-)

CBadger · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-02T02:11:00

The solution was to ensure all the fonts were in the dictionary as they have the needed characters in there.

For example "Courier New.TFF" has the necesary character in and will recognize the special characters so just had to include a font that has the characters (In my case almost any one will do)