[iText-questions] Problems in Arabic Diactrics (tashkeel)

[Ayman Zarroug]

So glad that arabic is now supported in iText, as this finally allows us to generate PDF reports using iReport and JasperReports (though it was necessary to make some modifications in both iReport and JasperReports to get this running).   The good news is that it generally works.  The bad news is that arabic text with diacritics are not properly displayed in PDFs.  This can be seen by running the sample "hebrew-arabic" code provided by Paulo Soares at arabic_hebrew.java in itextpdf.sf.net.   Tried the new release itext-paulo-127, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem.   Looking through iText code leads me to believe that functionality to handle this case is not implemented.   Are there any plans to solve this problem in the near future???   ayman