Maybe try specifying the unicode value directly, like so:
test2.setValue("\u8364");On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Frank Buss <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a PDF document with a text field and I want to enter an euro symbol > (€) with a program, but I'll get a strange character (¬). This is the code: > > import java.io.*; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.*; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.*; > > public class PdfTest { > > public static void main(final String args[]) throws Exception { > // load test document > PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load(new > File("test.pdf")); > PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = > pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog(); > PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm(); > > // get test2 field and set Euro > PDFieldTreeNode test2 = acroForm.getField("test2"); > test2.setValue("€"); > > // save as new document > pdfDocument.save("test2.pdf"); > pdfDocument.close(); > } > } > > See http://www.frank-buss.de/tmp/pdfTest.zip for the test.pdf and the > generated test2.pdf. I'm using the latest snapshot > (pdfbox-app-2.0.0-20150418.010411-1224.jar), but the same problem was in a > snapshot from January, too. How can I solve the problem? I can try to fix > it in the library, too, if someone can give me a hint where to search. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
