How to display the Japanese character

Question

Hi
Im trying to display the Japanese characters in pdf report(Using iText Report). I have the method as follows which is encoding the characters in a particular format in my say, Reports.java
public String stringFormat( String strData ) throws Exception {
          String result=null;
          try{          
          result = new String(strData.toString().getBytes("Shift-JIS"),"UTF-8");
          }catch(Exception e)          {}
          return result;
Im calling this method to display a category code in another one java file like
Phrase colm_2          = new Phrase(report.stringFormat(strCatgdes),font);
But Im nt getting the correct japanese chars, instead im seeing like this ??????? in my pdf report. I tried with different encoding char set like "ISO2022JP,EUC_JP,SJIS,Shift-JIS,MS932,Cp33722". All giving the wrong characters.
Can anyone help me to solve this issue?
Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

result = new String(strData.toString().getBytes("Shift-JIS"),"UTF-8");Priceless. So you take a string, convert it to Shift-JIS bytes, and then read the Shift-JIS bytes, pretending they're UTF-8. And you really expect that to work?
Strings are always in UTF-16, so there shouldn't be any need for you to do anything.
1) Make sure you read your ressources with the correct encoding
2) Make sure your font can actually display the letters