Character combination must be done before presenting the text to iText. Same for ligatures if needed.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Carsten Frewert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 16:11 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Combining characters in Unicode > > Hi! > > Digging into the wonders of Unicode, I tried writing Strings like > "\u0061\u0308" to a PDF document. (\u0061 is an 'a', \u0308 a > "combining diaeresis") > > The result should have been a german umlaut 'ä', but it isn't. > What I actually got was an 'a' with two dots above it, but offset to > the right and a bit too low. > > I wonder where the combination of characters is done when using > Unicode encoded TrueType fonts. > (The ugly looking 'ä' rendered from two combined characters is no > real problem, because umlauts and other special characters are > also contained as single characters in Unicode. But using non-latin > combined characters might produce more or less unreadable text.) > > Is there some preprocessing in iText, or has the PDF viewer to be > smart enough to handle combined characters (maybe using additional > information contained in the font.)? > > Bye and TIA, > > Carsten > -- > Carsten Frewert > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
