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
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Carsten Frewert
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