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.