Converting HTML to PDF using iText on Android. How to set UTF-8 (diacritics)?

Question

I am trying the following

itextg 5.5.3 jar

xmlworker 5.5.3 jar

test.html

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="cs">
<head>
</head>
<body>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',font-weight: bold,backround-color blue;">
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</div>

</body>
</html>

ConvertHTMLToPDF.java

public class ConvertHTMLToPDF {

    public static final String RESULT = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/Notes/test.pdf";
    public static final String RESORCE = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/Notes/html/test.html";


        void convertHTMLToPDF() throws IOException, DocumentException {

            Rectangle pagesize = new Rectangle(415,1750);
            Document document = new Document(pagesize);

            PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(RESULT));

            document.open();

            XMLWorkerHelper.getInstance().parseXHtml(writer, document, new FileInputStream(RESORCE));

            document.close();
            System.out.println( "PDF Created!" );
        }
    }

Output test.pdf

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How to get test.pdf

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score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '14 at 09:01

Please take a look at the XML Worker examples: http://itextpdf.com/sandbox/xmlworker/

Example 1: D07_ParseHtmlAsian

Tell the parseHtml() method that you're reading the XML as UTF-8:

XMLWorkerHelper.getInstance().parseXHtml(writer, document,
    new FileInputStream(HTML), Charset.forName("UTF-8"));

Example 2: D07bis_ParseHtmlAsian

Tell the parse() method that you're reading the XML as UTF-8:

XMLWorker worker = new XMLWorker(css, true);
XMLParser p = new XMLParser(worker);
p.parse(new FileInputStream(HTML), Charset.forName("UTF-8"));

Note that you'll prefer this in favor of example 1 when you want to control the fonts that are being used to output the PDF. Please compare with D07tris_ParseHtmlAsian.

Converting HTML to PDF using iText on Android. How to set UTF-8 (diacritics)?

I am trying the following

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