Allowing Spanish characters in PDF forms

I'd like to develop a PDF form primarily for Spanish speaking users. Is it possible to allow Spanish characters in a PDF form? I know setting the "default locale" in LC has nothing to do with this, so is it a matter of system settings (ie. keyboard settings) on the user's machine?
Has anyone every tried this before?
Thanks

Hi,
I am not sure if you are referring to the users creating your forms or the users using your forms.
In terms of typing charactes if the keyboard is set so that you can type spanish characters and the font you are in has those characters then they will be entered into the form, both when creating and filling of the form.
There is nothing specific that needs to be done to the form to allow this, it just accepts the characters that the OS passes to it from the keyboard.
(Point of note: if you are specifying a font to be used this would need to contain the characters that you want to use).
If I have misunderstood the problem then I apologise and if you provide more detail I can investigate further.
Regards
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