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

["John Hewson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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John Hewson edited comment on PDFBOX-1242 at 12/9/14 10:21 PM:
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Yes, this is a bug in PDFBox, but it's one we know about already. What does the code you've posted do?

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was (Author: jahewson):
Yes, this is a bug in PDFBox, but it's one we know about already. What does the code you've posted do?

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> 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
>          Components: Writing
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.0, 1.6.0
>            Reporter: Peter Andersen
>            Assignee: John Hewson
>             Fix For: 2.0.0
>
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> 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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