Character Encoding Solution (For pdf)

By: Hakan ERDOGAN - hakan008
Character Encoding Solution (For pdf)
2003-07-28 10:16
Hi all, I read a lot of messages including character encoding problem while writing to pdf. Here is a solution (Based on Turkish Characters):
XML File:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-9"?>

<!DOCTYPE jasperReport PUBLIC "//JasperReports//DTD Report Design//EN" "http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/dtds/jasperreport.dtd">
<jasperReport
name="CharacterEncodingTest"
columnCount="1"
printOrder="Vertical"
orientation="Landscape"
pageWidth="595"
pageHeight="842"
columnWidth="535"
columnSpacing="0"
leftMargin="30"
rightMargin="30"
topMargin="20"
bottomMargin="20"
whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail"
isTitleNewPage="false"
isSummaryNewPage="false">

<reportFont name="Arial_Normal" isDefault="true" fontName="Arial" size="8" pdfEncoding="Cp1254" isPdfEmbedded="false"/>

<title>
<band height="70">
<staticText>
<reportElement mode="Opaque" x="12" y="9" width="513" height="34" forecolor="#33FF33" backcolor="#000000" positionType="FixRelativeToTop"/>
<textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle" lineSpacing="Single">
<font size="16" isBold="true" isItalic="false" isUnderline="false"/>
</textElement>
<text><![CDATA[Sample Turkish Characters : Ǭ &#304;, &#286;, Ö¬ &#350;, ܬ ç¬&#305;, &#287;,   amp;#351;,   gt;</text>
</staticText>
</band>
</title>

<pageHeader><band height="50"></band>
</pageHeader>
<columnHeader><band height="30"></band>
</columnHeader>
<detail><band height="100"></band>
</detail>
<columnFooter><band height="30"></band>
</columnFooter>
<pageFooter><band height="50"></band>
</pageFooter>
<summary><band height="50"></band>
</summary>

</jasperReport>

There are 3 important points:
1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-9"?> (Change encoding as your language's)
2. whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail" (This is necessary for this example)
3. <reportFont name="Arial_Normal" isDefault="true" fontName="Arial" size="8" pdfEncoding="Cp1254" isPdfEmbedded="false"/>
(Change pdfEncoding as your language's)

It is now OK.
Byees