Unicode /uHHHH not being interpreted in field

[2005 IR Help]

By: Allister Miller - theallister

Unicode /uHHHH not being interpreted in field

2004-07-22 05:09

Hi

 

I have a problem with report fields not interpreting unicode and just displaying the passed string as-is

 

eg if a field contains the string "Test /u20ac", I am getting "Test /u20ac" output in the PDF.

 

If this string is passed as a parameter then I get "Test ?"

 

Is there a way of forcing a string to be 'unescaped' or reinterpreted in the jrxml definition.

 

<parameter name="Test" isForPrompting="false" class="java.lang.String">

<defaultValueExpression ><![CDATA["Test string u0393 u0394 u03b6 u20ac"]]></defaultValueExpression>

</parameter>

 

is fine, but

 

<textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{Test}]]></textFieldExpression>

 

with a database returned string of "Test string u0393 u0394 u03b6 u20ac"

 

Is not interpreted.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Allister

 

 

 

 

 

By: Allister Miller - theallister

RE: Unicode /uHHHH not being interpreted in field

2004-07-27 01:25

I will investigate using a scriptlet, although it seems like overkill - unless anyone else has a suggestion?

 

A

[mohammadkamaligmail.com]

I try to display Arabic data, and I am using the same fonts used in the unicode example, that is ARIAL.TTF or TIMES-ROMAN.TTF and encoding Identity-H.

It works correctly for a static text or a text that supply from a parameter.

<textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{GreekText} + "n" + $P{CyrillicText}]]></textFieldExpression>

</textField>

 

When I try to get data from database it's not work in a good manner.

I mean that when I use

<textFieldExpression class="java.util.Date">

<![CDATA[$F{DEPDATE}]]>

</textFieldExpression>

It shows nothing with pdfEncoding="Identity-H" and shows ????

With the other pdfEncoding.

 

I appreciate your kindly reply.