Handle non ISO-8859-1 chars with drawString
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Key: PDFBOX-1242
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1242
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.6.0, 1.5.0
Reporter: Peter Andersen
The PDPageContentStream.drawString take a String as argument, it construct a
COSString of the input.
If the input contain chars above 255, the COSString is prefixed 0xFe, 0xff and
the bytes are taken from the
input as "UTF-16BE" encoded.
Back in the drawString method this unicode16 encoded COSString is appended as a
"ISO-8859-1"
appendRawCommands( new String( buffer.toByteArray(), "ISO-8859-1"));
The result of this is that a line with UTF-16 chars is shown prefix with þÿ,
and with double space between the other chars.
The chars above 255 are shown as the two corresponding ISO-8859-1 characters.
As a side question to this observation, is there an alternative way to use
Pdfbox, to support UTF16?
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