Many thanks for your reply Cameron.
Slight error in my post - I meant to say non-1252.
Anyway, Paulo's answer solves the problem.
Thanks again.
Kind regards
William
William Bell
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From: Cameron Conacher <[email protected]>
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>Hello,
>I am not sure if this helps or not, but CodePage 1252 is not Unicode.
>I believe that UTF-8 encoded Unicode data uses CodePage 1208.
>And, UTF-16 Little Endian is CodePage 1200. UTF-16 Big Endian is CodePage 1201.
>
>Sorry I can't really help much more than that, but perhaps, your data is
>either not Unicode, or not CodePage 1252, and when interpretting and
>transforming it, it becomes scrambled?
>
>
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>Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 22:10:09 -0000
>From: "William Bell" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [iText-questions] Reading annotations containing Unicode
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>Good evening,
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>
>I am trying to extract the annotations in a pdf file. This is straight
>forward:
>
>
>
>reader = new PdfReader(pdfFile.fullname);
>
>for (int n = 1; n <= reader.NumberOfPages; n++) {
>
> PdfDictionary page = reader.GetPageN(n);
>
> PdfArray annotsArray = page.GetAsArray(PdfName.ANNOTS);
>
> if (annotsArray != null) {
>
> for (int k = 0; k < annotsArray.Size; k++) {
>
> PdfDictionary annot =
>(PdfDictionary)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(annotsArray[k]);
>
> PdfString content =
>(PdfString)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(annot.Get(PdfName.CONTENTS));
>
> if (content != null) {
>
> System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(content.ToString());
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
>}
>
>
>
>
>
>However, if the annotation contains Unicode (more specific 1252 code page)
>the annotation is not read correctly.
>
>
>
>I tried modifying the above code as follows:
>
>
>
>if (content != null) {
>
>byte[] byteArray =
>Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(((PdfString)PdfReader.GetPdfObject(annot.Get(PdfNa
>me.CONTENTS))).ToString());
>
>string s = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(byteArray);
>
>System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(s);
>
>
>
>
>
>Unfortunately, this does not resolve the issue.
>
>
>
>I have attached a sample file with the troublesome annotation.
>
>
>
>I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction.
>
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>William Bell
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