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Christian Brandt edited comment on PDFBOX-3255 at 3/1/16 2:41 PM:
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Oh well, the web site did hide that hyphen, but it looks like "a-b" except that 
the hyphen is not a normal hyphen but a soft hyphen instead.


was (Author: dadacafe):
Oh well, the web site did hide that hyphen too, but it looks like "a-b" except 
that the hyphen is not a normal hyphen.

> Reasonable way to handle missing characters in font
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-3255
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3255
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: AcroForm
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Christian Brandt
>              Labels: newbie
>         Attachments: TEST.pdf
>
>
> Hello,
> We have an issue with setting form field values if the input contains 
> characters that cannot be rendered with the associated font. The system 
> throws similar exception to:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+0308 ('dieresiscmb') is not available 
> in this font's encoding: MacRomanEncoding with differences
> Currently this is problematic to be handled outside the framework because 
> based on my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) the caller does 
> not have a way to figure out what font will be eventually used and therefore 
> which characters are not renderable.
> What we would ultimately like, is that the library would optionally replace 
> unrenderable characters with some another existing character (e.g. space) 
> instead of failing the call, or that the library would provide a way to 
> recover from this error so that the user would be able to call the method 
> again with altered input. 



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