Hi Pualo,
Thanks for your help. I managed to trace the problem with the provided source code
and was able to get it working. I found a possible problem in PdfObject wherein the
class variable ENCODING is hardcoded to be iso88591, I changed this to
System.getProperties().getProperty("fild.encoding"). Secondly, the problem with HKSCS
characters is actually caused by Java, because some HKSCS characters have two BIG5
values, and java only provides mapping to one. e.g. under file.encoding="MS950". It is
possible to translate an HKSCS from MS950 to Unicode but not from Unicode to MS950, I
had to perform getBytes("BIG5-HKSCS") first then recreate String with MS950 as
encoding to get it working. And the worse thing is that when using "BIG5-HKSCS" as
default file.encoding, character data gets corrupted when retrieved from Oracle, so I
can't use BIG5-HKSCS as my default fild.encoding. I'm posting this out so that other
users might benifit in case they encounter the same problem later. Again, thanks a lot
for your help.
Regards,
Zhen
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 11:37:03 +0100
>You have three options:
>
>- If your pdf is to be read with Acrobat 5 with the Adobe CJK font pack then
>all that is required is to tweak the font supplement from Adobe-CNS1-0 to
>Adobe-CNS1-3. I'll have this in the next release, it will still work in
>Acrobat 4.0 but without the new characters, of course.
>
>- your font contains the characters from Unicode block \uff00 (Halfwidth and
>Fullwidth Forms). See
>http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#preformattedtext.
>
>- Otherwise it's just a matter of programming although I must say that a
>font that doesn't include \u0020-\u007e characters is really weird. The
>sequence is as follows:
>
>1 - create two fonts, the HK and TIMES for example.
>2 - read the text from the database
>3 - divide the text in chunks each one using a font depending on the
>character range.
>4 - assemble the chunks into a phrase and use the phrase.
>
>Best Regards,
>Paulo Soares
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Zhen Cua [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:48
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [iText-questions] unicode 3.1/hkscs support
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am reposting this question from the forum.
>> The current CJKFont does not seem to include support for HKSCS (HongKong
>> Supplementary character set) characters, and hence I am forced to embed a
>> TTF. Unfortunately, the TTF does not contain support for other characters
>> such as latin1 and basic punctuations, I've tried using MS Arial Unicode
>> but it contains only chracters until unicode 2.0, I am generating the pdf
>> based on the contents of the database, so it is almost impossible to
>> pre-determine the font to be used. Is there a solution to this problem?
>> will it be possible to modify something in the code to allow it to specify
>> two or more fonts in a call to new Chunk() or new Phrase() such that it
>> will automatically search the character in font2 if it is no in font1?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Zhen
>>
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