Using FOP to generate french PDF document, having problem with œ character.

Question

I am using iso-8859-15 encoding both in xml data and in the xslt style sheet. But when I try convert XML doc to FO document 'œ' does'nt show up it shows up as '?' Below is the example of the problem I am facing.

The xml data is as follows: Nous sommes sous l'emprise du Divin cœur de Celui que mon fils vénère par-dessus

in the fo file the same line is generated as :

--------Nous sommes sous l'emprise du Divin c?ur de Celui que mon fils vénère par-dessus

As you see all the other accents are getting generated fine except for the 'œ'character.

Any help is greatly appreciated. This one issue is holding up a project.

Answer 1

Have you seen http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters ? It could be that you're simply using a font that doesn't have that character. See also http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/stable/fonts.html on how to configure fonts.

However, given that you get a '?' and not a '#' for the missing character could indicate that there's an encoding problem. Sun JVMs usually replace characters that are not in an encoding by a '?'. You might want to consider switching to UTF-8 even though ISO 8859-15 should support the characters you want to use. Since I don't have access to your XML file here, I can't figure out if there's something wrong with it.

HTH

Answer 2

Hi Guys,

I have a similar issue.. I have HTML stored in DB clob. I am retrieving that and converting to XHTML using TIDY.jar.

Once i got XHTML then using FOP i am converting to XSL-FO. Finally XSL-FO is rendering in PDF.

Previously everything is working fine with Linux-WAS5-java1.4. Recently we migrated the apps to Linux-WAS6-Java1.5. Now XHTML to XSL-FO is messing up everything. XSL-FO contains ???(Question marks) in the place of Euro, spase(nbsp), Agrave, egrave ..etc.

I tried changing the JVM encoding to UTF-8 and also i have modified my servlet request and response to support UTF-8. I am helfless and unable to figure where exactly the issue is coming out. Can someone please check this and suggest me some solution.

Answer 3

Hi Ravi,

did u get any solution to this problem. Even i am facing exactly same problem.

Thanks Himanshu