: Maybe this is the answer: : http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_90/faq.html#encoding
my reading of that is that setting an encoding will let you use the litteral UTF-8 character 9which is what i would expect) but not the end of the answer... >> Another option is to use "character entities" such as ö (ö) or >> the numeric form ö (ö). ...which is what we are doing. I suspect the PDF formatter just doesn't play nicely with the non-trivial UTF-8 characters. -Hoss