Doesn't show special characters using jasper APIS in Java program

[xcollons]

Hello,

I'm trying to do a report and then launch it from a java application. The report, amongst other things, have a person's name, as since it's in spanish, it can include special characters such as 'Ñ'.

If we take a look at the xml header, it says that it's encoded in UTF-8: "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>", and what I'm trying to show is a variable called "persfullname" from an Informix database. For that, I'm using a textfield like this: 

<textField>

<reportElement x="160" y="0" width="351" height="15" uuid="fc2d6e4a-77a1-5ceb-9bad-1b997f4432e6"/>

<textElement markup="styled"/>

<textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{persfullname}]]></textFieldExpression>

</textField>

 

If I launch the preview from the designer, the ´Ñ´is showed correctly. The problem is when I try to launch the report from Java, using the Jasper Viewer. The ´Ñ´is marked as a '?'.

The jasper libraries used are

-jasperreports-6.2.2.jar

-jasperreports-fonts-6.2.2.jar

-jasperreports-functions-6.2.2.jar

-jasperreports-javaflow-6.2.2.jar

 

And "common" libraries, itext, etc...

 

The relevant bit of code to launch the report is here:

String jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReportToFile

                    (reportPath);

 

            jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport,

                parameters, conn);

 

JasperViewer jasperViewer = new JasperViewer(jasperPrint, false);

JasperViewer.setVisible(true);

 

Being parameters a HashMap and conn, a connection to the database.

Am I missing anything? Thanks.

[hozawa]

Yes. You didn't mention with which encoding you're getting the data from Informix. You need to get the data in UTF-8 encoding from Informix.

You also didn't specify which font you are using. If you are using special characters, font that support those characters must be made into a font extension jar file and put in the classpath.