Problem with Eastern european characters

[JAPISoft <ed...@japisoft.com>]

Hello,

I'm using FOP and I have the following problem :

I transform a .FO to a PDF but this .FO contains Eastern european 
characters (ISO-8859-2/UTF-8 compatible), when looking at the resulting 
PDF I have
a '#' for each eastern character. If I try another output different of 
PDF, the resulting document is correct.

For remark : The PDF is correct if I use western european characters 
(like ISO-8859-1).

This is as if the PDF font was ignoring my eastern characters. But I 
feel the problem is in the output way, because eastern european 
characters may require two encoding bytes.

When using the (org.apache.fop.apps) Driver class, I have noticed that 
the output must be an OutputStream, so this is not character compatible 
but byte only compatible, it seems unicode cannot be processed correctly ?

How an I process such characters ?

Thank you in advance,

Best regards,

A.Brillant

Re: Problem with Eastern european characters

[JAPISoft <ed...@japisoft.com>]

Thank you sir,

I was thinking to the output way because opening for instance a PS 
output I had in a full text the character # that's why I was
thinking to a problem for encoding unicode, but indeed PDF is half text 
and half binary.

Best regards,

A.Brillant


J.Pietschmann wrote:

> JAPISoft wrote:
>
>> I transform a .FO to a PDF but this .FO contains Eastern european 
>> characters (ISO-8859-2/UTF-8 compatible), when looking at the 
>> resulting PDF I have
>> a '#' for each eastern character.
>
> [...]
>
>> This is as if the PDF font was ignoring my eastern characters. But I 
>> feel the problem is in the output way, because eastern european 
>> characters may require two encoding bytes.
>
>
> Your feeling isn't quite correct. Check the FAQ:
>  http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters
>
>> When using the (org.apache.fop.apps) Driver class, I have noticed 
>> that the output must be an OutputStream, so this is not character 
>> compatible but byte only compatible, it seems unicode cannot be 
>> processed correctly ?
>
>
>
> PDF isn't text, it is a binary format. For details, check the PDF spec.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
>
> .
>

Re: Problem with Eastern european characters

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

JAPISoft wrote:
> I transform a .FO to a PDF but this .FO contains Eastern european 
> characters (ISO-8859-2/UTF-8 compatible), when looking at the resulting 
> PDF I have
> a '#' for each eastern character.
[...]
> This is as if the PDF font was ignoring my eastern characters. But I 
> feel the problem is in the output way, because eastern european 
> characters may require two encoding bytes.

Your feeling isn't quite correct. Check the FAQ:
  http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters

> When using the (org.apache.fop.apps) Driver class, I have noticed that 
> the output must be an OutputStream, so this is not character compatible 
> but byte only compatible, it seems unicode cannot be processed correctly ?


PDF isn't text, it is a binary format. For details, check the PDF spec.

J.Pietschmann