ă ş ţ chars aren't rendered by iTextSharp

Question

I use iTextSharp in asp.net mvc to return pdf like this:

public class Pdf : IPdf
    {
        public FileStreamResult Make(string s)
        {
            using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
            {
                using (var document = new Document())
                {
                    PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, ms);
                    document.Open();
                    using (var str = new StringReader(s))
                    {
                        var htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(document);

                        htmlWorker.Parse(str);
                    }
                    document.Close();
                }

                HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
                HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=MyPdfName.pdf");
                HttpContext.Current.Response.Buffer = true;
                HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();
                HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream.Write(ms.GetBuffer(), 0, ms.GetBuffer().Length);
                HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream.Flush();
                HttpContext.Current.Response.End();

                return new FileStreamResult(HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream, "application/pdf");
            }
        }
    }

the problem is that characters like: ă ţ ş are not rendered

did you tried using the hexadecimal value? did you tried for the encoding to support such characters? I use `Æ` `Ø` and `Å` very well with iTextSharp. — balexandre, Mar 01 '11 at 14:26
will this help? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1322303/html-to-pdf-some-characters-are-missing-itextsharp — naveen, Mar 01 '11 at 14:26
This is not an answer, but an observation regarding the code above (not related to your question but it might help you in the future): the ms.GetBuffer() can generate damaged PDF file in some situations, you can read here more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5109384/itextsharp-generated-pdfs-now-cause-save-dialog-in-adobe-reader-x — iPDFdev, Mar 01 '11 at 14:29
@balexandre your chars work for me too, how would I use the hexadecimal value ? — Omu, Mar 01 '11 at 14:32
did you tried change the encoding as I said? `HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentEncoding = "ISO-8859-16";` --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-16 — balexandre, Mar 01 '11 at 14:57
@balexandre tried this `CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("ro-RO"); Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(ci.TextInfo.ANSICodePage); Response.ContentEncoding = enc;` doesn't help — Omu, Mar 01 '11 at 15:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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yetanothercoder is correct. That would do the trick... but there's another very similar question which I answered in a bit more detail:

iText + HTMLWorker - How to change default font?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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answered Mar 03 '11 at 23:26

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 10 '11 at 08:55

Please try the folowing:

var unicodeFont = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont(iTextSharp.text.FontFactory.TIMES_ROMAN, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CP1250, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
acroFields.SetFieldProperty("txtContractorBirthPlace", "textfont", unicodeFont, null);

And it should do it for you. You have to add the field property to every field you wish to have diacritics.

Baftă!

ă ş ţ chars aren't rendered by iTextSharp

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