[#14531] - Not all special characters (UTF-8) are working when a pdf file is created

Posted by pcharizakis_1 on January 4, 2023 - 12:09am
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Bug report
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High
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Project:
JasperReports® Library
 Severity:
Major
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Open
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Currently I am using jasper report library version 6.20.0.
My scope was to support the following special characters (UTF-8) on pdf file creation.
Å,å,Ä,ä,Ö,ö,Å,å,Æ,æ,Ø,ø,Ü,ü,ẞ,ß,1

As you can see from the attached screenshot all characters are displayed correct apart from the capital Eszett (ẞ).

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#1Posted by lucianc on January 4, 2023 - 2:13am

You need to use a font extension with a font that includes a glyph for U+1E9E. For instance the latest version of the DejaVu fonts https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/

You can create the font extension in Jaspersoft Studio (make sure you set the Identity-H as PDF encoding and the Embed in PDF flag) and export it as a jar to be included in your application.

Note that JasperReports comes with a font extension jar that contains DejaVu fonts (https://search.maven.org/artifact/net.sf.jasperreports/jasperreports-fonts), but it's an older version of the fonts that do not cover U+1E9E.

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