Sending non-English parameters vlaues to rwservlet for a pdf reports

Hi friends,
I have developed a report which I open through calling rwservlet from an HTML form posting all form inputs to the rwservlet to use as parameters to my report.
The problem arises when I try to pass non-English (Arabic) values, the report comes out but the passed Arabic values appear corrupted in the PDF file, Although other boilerplate Arabic fields appear very well.
The proplem is with the values I pass dynamically when posting to rwservlet not with static Arabic boilerplates!
thanks for help.

Fonts are defined in the template you use to generate the pdf. Your application add the data and both is processed yb the FOP processor. Now there are two possible causes of the '???' :
1. the data you sent to the template contains the '???' already
2. the template can't digest the data (the special characters) and puts '???' in the pdf.
Before going on you have to find out which one is your problem. The 2nd is the problem you better ask this in a FOP forum as you have to solve it by changing the template.
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