How to create a PDF document from languages of Unicode char set regarding using third party Fonts

Question

I\'m using PDFBox and iText to create a simple (just paragraphs) pdf document from various languages. Something like :

pdfBox:

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Answer 1

You may find this answer helpful - it confirms that you can't do what you need with one of the standard type 1 fonts, as they're Latin1 only

In theory, you just need to embed a suitable font into the document, which handles all your codepoints, and use that. However, there's at least one open bug with writing unicode strings, so there's a chance it might not work just yet... Try the latest pdfbox from svn trunk too though to see if it helps!