[#XWIKI-1609] Some UTF-8 characters replaced with '#' when generating PDF

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Some UTF-8 characters replaced with '#' when generating PDF

Created: 14/Aug/07 20:16 Updated: 07/Jul/08 01:42

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Affects Version/s:

1.1 M4

Fix Version/s:

1.5 RC1

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This issue is related to:

~~XWIKI-49~~ PDF generation failed with vietnamese characters encoded in UTF-8

keywords:	fonts pdf
Date of First Response:	27/Aug/07 13:33
Resolution Date:	07/Jul/08 01:42
Development Priority:	Medium

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We need a pan-unicode font set like the STIX fonts (http://www.stixfonts.org/).

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Sergiu Dumitriu added a comment - 27/Aug/07 13:33

stixfonts is late, so we can't solve this now.

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Catalin Hritcu added a comment - 16/Nov/07 14:42

The STIX fonts are available in beta now

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Sergiu Dumitriu added a comment - 19/Nov/07 21:30

Problem: FOP needs a configuration file, as the in-code configuration is very limited, but I don't know how to retrieve that file, as a relative path will be relative to where the server was started from, and an absolute path is soooo platform dependent. I'll try to find a nice way around this problem.

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Sergiu Dumitriu added a comment - 10/Jun/08 21:56

Some links:

http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/convert-otf-to-ttf-font-on-ubuntu.html for converting OpenType fonts
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/index.html#font-devel for other possible fonts we could use (STIX is delayed yet more)
http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/download.html for a TeX CM font port

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Sergiu Dumitriu added a comment - 11/Jun/08 01:48

Thanks to Chris Phelan, who gave me some hints in a private mail (and to the improvements in the latest FOP release), I think it is possible to have a nice way to configure FOP.

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Paul Libbrecht added a comment - 05/Jul/08 23:15

Hello,

all the proposals here seem to speak about math fonts.

Pan unicode is like... with all arabic characters as well?

paul

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Sergiu Dumitriu added a comment - 07/Jul/08 01:42

Added FreeFont as the default font.

It has support for most languages, except some Asian ones.