[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-1242) Handle non ISO-8859-1 chars with drawString

["Peter Andersen (Created) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Handle non ISO-8859-1 chars with drawString
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                 Key: PDFBOX-1242
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1242
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.6.0, 1.5.0
            Reporter: Peter Andersen


The PDPageContentStream.drawString take a String as argument, it construct a COSString of the input.
If the input contain chars above 255, the COSString is prefixed 0xFe, 0xff and the bytes are taken from the
input as "UTF-16BE" encoded.

Back in the drawString method this unicode16 encoded COSString is appended as a "ISO-8859-1"        

	appendRawCommands( new String( buffer.toByteArray(), "ISO-8859-1"));
 
The result of this is that a line with UTF-16 chars is shown prefix with þÿ, and with double space between the other chars.
The chars above 255 are shown as the two corresponding ISO-8859-1 characters.

As a side question to this observation, is there an alternative way to use Pdfbox, to support UTF16?

 
 
 


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