Re: [Retep-PDF] problems with extended characters

[Peter M. <pe...@re...>]

Maximiliano Perez wrote:
> I have an application using RetepPDF to generate PDF files, running in a
> Jakarta-Tomcat 5.0.25 on RedHat Linux 9, with JDK 1.4.2.
> It works fine, both using the local X server or (as I have jdk 1.4) with
> the  -Djava.awt.headless=true option enabled, but I have a little
> problem: some extended characters needed in spanish, such as N with
> tilde and accents, are not generated correctly.Insted I consistently get
> two characters, an uppercase A with a tilde and some other strange char.
> Other applications running in this X server display the spanish
> characters correctly, so it seems to be a Java related problem, but any
> suggestion on where to look for the problem will be appreciated.
> Thanks!

Can you send me a pdf showing this problem. It may be that the spanish 
character is not being translated correctly, and by the sounds of it, 
you are seeing it's unicode representation being split into two characters.

Peter