Gilad Denneboom created PDFBOX-3138:
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             Summary: PDTextField doesn't accept any Hebrew characters as new 
value
                 Key: PDFBOX-3138
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3138
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: AcroForm, FontBox
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
         Environment: Eclipse 4.2.2, Windows 7 Pro, JRE 1.8.0_05
            Reporter: Gilad Denneboom
            Priority: Minor


Trying to set a UTF-8 encoded Hebrew string as the value of a PDTextField fails 
with the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No glyph for 
U+05D7 in font AdobeHebrew-Regular
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1CFont.encode(PDType1CFont.java:300)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:283)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.showText(PDPageContentStream.java:341)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PlainTextFormatter.format(PlainTextFormatter.java:213)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.insertGeneratedAppearance(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:373)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceContent(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:237)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:144)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.constructAppearances(PDTextField.java:263)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTerminalField.applyChange(PDTerminalField.java:221)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.setValue(PDTextField.java:218)
        at SetHebrewFieldValueTest.main(SetHebrewFieldValueTest.java:22)

I've tried using multiple fonts for the field, all of which can handle Hebrew 
characters just fine, and got the same results in all of them.
See attached files for a demonstration of the issue.



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