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Hi,

I've encountered an issue, where reports containing asian characters, saved as PDFs would have all asian characters replaced by square symbols. This issue only occurs when saving to PDF as far as I see.

This issue occurs in the Designer application, which comes with StiReports .Net 2010.1

Any advice on this situation? Has this been fixed with later releases?

Hello,

Most of the standard fonts does not contain national characters. In this case Windows uses the "font fallback".
This algorithm is very complicated and, therefore, is not realized in the exports.
To output national characters, please, use the font which contain all necessary characters.
For example, the "Arial Unicode MS" font contains many national characters. Also, in your case, you may try to use the "MS Mincho" font.

Thank you.

Thanks for your reply!

What are national characters though? The standard A-Z?

Otherwise it makes sense - just use one of the fonts which supports asian characters

Thanks :biggrin:

Hello,

The standard set means symbols with codes 32-127, which include numbers and english alphabet. All other symbols have their code pages and are national.

Thank you.