iTextSharp diacritics

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I am trying to typeset a pdf with iTextSharp library, but I cannot find anywhere how to handle diacritics. Since I found tables of contents of two books about iTextSharp where diacritics has a section, I suppose it is doable. So the question is

How to typeset "ř" ?

In addition, is there some guide or link about this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Eric Pohl · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-25T17:12:14.770

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You're going to need to figure out what the Unicode representation is for your diacritical characters. You can embed Unicode characters into a string literal with \u[unicode value in hex]; e.g.

string s = "\u0159";  // Should be your character

You may also need to choose a font that can represent the characters correctly:

bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(...);
font = new Font(bf, 12);
document.Add(new Paragraph(s, font);

edited Nov 25 '09 at 17:12

answered Nov 25 '09 at 15:14

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The problem was not exactly on the chosen font, but on the encoding. I didn't notice that previously, however thanks. Btw as far as i know all strings in c# are translated into unicode characters. – Trimack Nov 26 '09 at 14:50
True enough. In contrived code examples typically used in answers, we're often hard-coding strings, but in real use, the problem is often getting the encoding right when reading text into a string from an outside source (user input, text file, database, etc.) – Eric Pohl Nov 30 '09 at 13:43
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here's the link for Romanian Unicode Diacritics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-2 – Dragos Durlut Jan 17 '11 at 17:34

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 08 '14 at 17:05

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I've tried to implement the answer sugested by glaxaco, but it did not work for me.

I've tried to fill out a pdf form with AcroFields, but the diacritics ţşŢŞăîĂÎ etc. would not apeear. (using Arial font)

In the end I've resorted to stripping the diacritics

Pretty weird because when I introduce them by hand, as in MANUALLY filling in the forms, the diacritics show up just fine.

Hope someone can find a solution to this problem. :(

edited Oct 08 '14 at 17:05

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answered Jan 18 '11 at 10:31

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the `CreateFont` method has an overload with encoding => something like this `BaseFont bfTimes = BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.TIMES_ROMAN, BaseFont.CP1250, false);` – Trimack Jan 18 '11 at 12:59

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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Diacritics are simply unicode characters. You will have to embed an unicode font into the PDF. See this thread for Java examples, I assume they will be almost the same in C#

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answered Nov 25 '09 at 15:04

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iTextSharp diacritics

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