Hi, Can anyone help on some chinese character issue on my hand. I am working on some pdf templates that contain chinese character, I made search and applied this approach, but stil the chinese character is not displaying. https://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/displaying-east-asian-characters-report-pdf-output ArialUnicodeMS.jar is in my project's classpath which contains ARIALUNI.TTF and I tried net.sf.jasperreport version 6.4.1, 6.0.0 and 5.1.0, there's no problem for me to compile template and generate pdf. I debugged with log4j, the jar file ArialUnicodeMS.jar is defintely loaded, actually if I remove the jar from classpath, I would get "net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRFontNotFoundException: Font 'Arial Unicode MS' is not available to the JVM. " error. So I guess the font is registered, but not sure why it's not working. For simpliticity, below I used a static text for testing, whatever I used ‘总额’ or unicode 'u603bu989d', even english word "Total", the content in pdf is blank as long as the font is "Arial Unicode MS", if I changed to some other font not registered, like 'STSong', I would fail with this error net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Could not load the following font: pdfFontName: Helvetica pdfEncoding: Identity-H isPdfEmbedded : false but "Helvetica" is not even used in my jrml file. <staticText> <reportElement x="5" y="185" width="55" height="10" uuid="10ddc6d9-94d3-4dd9-875f-6094eba2c595"/> <textElement textAlignment="Left"> <font fontName="Arial Unicode MS" pdfEncoding="Identity-H" size="8"/> </textElement> <text><![CDATA[总额]]></text> </staticText> Does anyone have any idea about this, thanks!!!