I have been trying to display a check mark ("\u2713") in the jasper report pdf generated file but it shows up as a "?" (all of my UTF-8 symbols appear as the ?). In the <TexElement> the fontName is set to "DejaVu Sans and pdfEcoding is Cp1250. Some of the code is show below and I using JasperStuido 6.19
<property name="net.sf.jasperreports.default.pdf.encoding" value="Cp1250"/>
<textField>
<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="80" height="40" uuid="5decf990-0f79-47e4-aff95b31cbb30d79"/>
<textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle">
<font size="9" fontName="DejaVu San" pdfEncoding="Cp1250"/>
</textElement>
<textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{StatusChar}]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>
StatusChar values are "\u2713", "\u25CF", "\u274C", or "\u25B4"
I welcome any input how to solve this.