Or if it's not an apostrophe ' but a single quote ', perhaps
dataString.getBytes("windows-1252"), if that's what you wrote in --
since ' is not in iso-8859-1.

--Ph.

On 8/16/05, Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try with dataString.getBytes("iso-8859-1").
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angus Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 4:51 AM
> Subject: [iText-questions] About "Single Quote" characters
> 
> 
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
>     I'm not sure is this the right contact email for my questions. Just have
> a try and hope that someone can help me.
> 
>     I used iText package for nearly 2 years. An year ago, i've changed to
> use PdfEncodings so that i can print some Hong Kong Chinese characters. The
> code for encoding is as the following:
> 
>     String dataString = "Hello. I'm a boy".
>     PdfEncodings.loadCmap("HKscs-B5-H", PdfEncodings.CRLF_CID_NEWLINE);
>     dataString = PdfEncodings.convertCmap("HKscs-B5-H",
> dataString.getBytes());
> 
>     However, when i print the encoded text with showText method in
> PdfContentByte. The single quote character is gone.
> 
>     Output: "Hello. I m a boy".
> 
>     Is this the Cmap mapping missing? Or is there any method to encode the
> single quote character before the loadCmap ? It have no problem in printing
> #%" ... etc.
> 
>     Thank You.
> 
> 
>       Best Regards,
> 
>       Angus Lee
>       System Analyst
> 
>       employEasy Limited
> 
>       Unit C & D, 9/F Vulcan House,
>       21-23 Leighton Road, Hong Kong.
> 
>       TEL  : 852 - 2803 5077
>       FAX  : 852 - 2803 5377
> 
>       Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>       Web  : http://www.employEasy.com
> 
> 
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