I can't add the ₺ (Turkish Lira) icon to the file with Java PDFWriter

Question

BaseFont bfSpecial = BaseFont.createFont("get_font/verdana.ttf",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);

Font my_font = new Font(bfSpecial, 9, Font.BOLD, BaseColor.BLACK);
    
document.add(new Paragraph("\n",my_font));
document.add(new Paragraph("*(₺₺₺₺₺)*",my_font));
document.add(new Paragraph("\n",my_font));

My Output

How to View the ₺ (Turkish Lira) sign on PDF?

Does https://stackoverflow.com/questions/128162/unicode-in-pdf help? — Karl Knechtel, Apr 11 '21 at 23:34
Does this answer your question? [Unicode characters in iText PDF](https://stackoverflow.com/q/9556678/5221149) — Andreas, Apr 11 '21 at 23:35
thank you very much for your suggestions, but I've reviewed them all, and unfortunately they're not appropriate. @KarlKnechtel — Mustafa IŞIK, Apr 12 '21 at 01:06
Your code looks like you use itext as pdf library, not some core JRE class, for pdf creation. — mkl, Apr 12 '21 at 04:43
it's very true. Do you want to suggest a different path? @mkl — Mustafa IŞIK, Apr 12 '21 at 23:34
I would suggest mentioning that library in the question and adding the tag [tag:itext]. — mkl, Apr 13 '21 at 04:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '21 at 02:48

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I finally solved the problem. I just had to use the font "DejaVuSerif.ttf" for the solution. you can download the font here

BaseFont bfSpecial = BaseFont.createFont("get_font/DejaVuSerif.ttf",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font font = new Font(bfSpecial, 9, Font.NORMAL, BaseColor.BLACK);

answered Apr 12 '21 at 02:48

Mustafa IŞIK

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In other words, your *verdana.ttf* simply does not contain a glyph for the ₺ (Turkish Lira) icon, and the solution is to use a font that does. – mkl Apr 12 '21 at 04:37
I can display the ₺ (Turkish Lira) icon with verdana.ttf in JTable. But I couldn't view it in a PDF. @mkl – Mustafa IŞIK Apr 12 '21 at 23:42
JTable apparently uses a replacement from another font. Itext on the other hand simply does what you tell it to. – mkl Apr 13 '21 at 04:58

I can't add the ₺ (Turkish Lira) icon to the file with Java PDFWriter

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