Flying Saucer encoding problem

Question

Hi, i have a problem with encoding when creating pdf using Flying Saucer. I have xhtml document in UTF-8 and because I'm from the czech republic, i need to use several specific extended characters. The problem is, that Flying Saucer's default encoding is Latin1 (ISO-8859-1), which doesn't support these characters. In the documentation of the FS I have read that you can add specific fonts to support specific encoding by adding font to the font resolver of ITextRenderer class:
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
FontResolver resolver = renderer.getFontResolver();
resolver.addFont (
"C:\\WINNT\\Fonts\\ARIALUNI.TTF",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED
where "C:\\WINNT\\Fonts\\ARIALUNI.TTF" is the font, "BaseFont.IDENTITY_H" specifies the encoding (in this case UTF-8) and "BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED" is another attribute, not important for now.
But even if I add the font this way, the FS still uses LATIN1 encoding and these characters are displayed wrong. Does anyone know, how to tell FS to use the UTF-8 encoding instead of the default one? Is there anything more I have to set? I was searching the internet and whole documentation for ages but wasn't able to find anything:( any help appreciated..thx

Answer 1

Anyone had problem with bolding text which font is different than default??
For example
renderer.getFontResolver().addFont(fonts\\TAHOMA.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
//or even
renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("fonts\\TAHOMA.TTF", true);{code}
and in document
{code}<font style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10px; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight:bold; \"><strong>bold test</strong></font>{code}
It just won't get bold.. Works fine with default font...