Hi,

sounds like an encoding issue. Please upload the input file to a sharehoster or something similar so that we are able to reproduce your case.

Andreas


Am 06.02.26 um 17:05 schrieb Markus Mensinger via users:
Hi PdfBox team,

is the following maybe an issue in PdfBox?

Steps to reproduce
===============
1. Create a document that contains a radio button with Umlaut in name. I can 
give you an example document.
Let's say: A radio group "Geschlecht" with the buttons "männlich" and 
"weiblich". Do not use PdfBox for this step. I used Acrobat Pro 2020.
The name/value of the "männlich" button is encoded as "/m#e4nnlich" in the PDF.

2. Update the value of the radio group with PdfBox to "männlich" and save it to 
a new document.

import java.io.File;
import org.apache.pdfbox.Loader;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;

public class UpdateRadioGroup {

     private static final String INPUT_FILE = "form_empty.pdf";
     private static final String OUTPUT_FILE = "form_selected.pdf";
     private static final String FIELD_NAME = "Geschlecht";
     private static final String FIELD_VALUE = "männlich";

     public static void main(String[] args)
             throws Exception {

         try (PDDocument document = Loader.loadPDF(new File(INPUT_FILE))) {
             document.getDocumentCatalog()
                     .getAcroForm(null)
                     .getField(FIELD_NAME)
                     .setValue(FIELD_VALUE);

             document.save(new File(OUTPUT_FILE));
         }
     }
}

3. Validate the name/value of the "männlich" button in the new document in a text editor. PdfBox 
encodes "männlich" to "/m#c3#a4nnlich" (see COSName.writePDF() ).

The problem
===============
PdfBox renames the radio button from "männlich" to "männlich".  Or "/m#e4nnlich" to 
"/m#c3#a4nnlich" in PDF-format.
When you read the document again, PdfBox converts "#c3#a" to "ä" but all other 
programs do not. I tested Acrobat Pro 2020, actual Acrobat Reader, PDFXplorer from 
https://www.o2sol.com


Thanks
Markus

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