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    <p>I'm trying to generate a pdf file using iText.<br> The file gets produced just fine, but I can seem to use special characters like german ä, ö, ...<br> The sentence I want to be written is (for example) </p> <blockquote> <p>■ ...ä...ö...</p> </blockquote> <p>but the output is </p> <blockquote> <p>â– ...ä...ö...</p> </blockquote> <p>(I had to kind of blur the sentences, but I guess you see what I'm talking about...)</p> <p>Somehow this black block-thing and all "Umlaute" can't be generated ...<br> The font used is the following:</p> <pre><code>private static Font smallBold = new Font(Font.FontFamily.TIMES_ROMAN, 12, Font.BOLD); </code></pre> <p>So there should be no problem about the font not having these characters...<br> I'm using IntelliJ Idea to develop, the encoding of the .java file is set to UTF-8, so there should be no problem too... </p> <p>I'm kind of lost here; does anyone know what i may do to get it working?</p> <p>Thanks in advance and greetz gilaras</p> <p><strong>---------------UPDATE---------------</strong></p> <p>So here's (part of) the code: </p> <pre><code>@Controller public class Generator { ... Font font = new Font(Font.FontFamily.TIMES_ROMAN, 9f, Font.BOLD); ... Paragraph intro = new Paragraph("Ich interessiere mich für ...!", font_12_bold); Paragraph wantContact = new Paragraph("■ Ich hätte gerne ... ", font); ... Phrase south = new Phrase("■ Süden □ Ost-West ..."); ... @RequestMapping(value = "/generatePdf", method = RequestMethod.POST) @ResponseBody public String generatePdf(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException, DocumentException, com.lowagie.text.DocumentException { Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(FILE)); addMetaData(document); document.open(); addContent(document, request); document.add(new Paragraph("äöü")); document.close(); return ""; } private void addContent(Document document, HttpServletRequest request) throws DocumentException { Paragraph preface = new Paragraph(); preface.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED); addEmptyLine(preface, 1); preface.add(new Paragraph("Rückantwort", catFont)); addEmptyLine(preface, 2); preface.add(intro); addEmptyLine(preface, 1); if (request.getParameter("dec1").equals("wantContact")) { preface.add(wantContact); } else { ... } document.add(preface); } private static void addEmptyLine(Paragraph paragraph, int number) { for (int i = 0; i &lt; number; i++) { paragraph.add(new Paragraph(" ")); } } private static void addMetaData(Document document) { document.addTitle("..."); document.addSubject("..."); document.addKeywords("..."); document.addAuthor("..."); document.addCreator("..."); } } </code></pre> <p>I had to take some things out, but I kept some Umlaut-character and other special characters, so that you can see, where the problem occurs ... :-)</p>
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    1. COI skipped the part with HttpServletRequest... and I get all displayed correctly except the '■' bullet
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    2. COThat's kind of strange ... oO Because it doesn't really have anything to do with hardcoded strings, does it? At least it shouldn't ... Anyways, didn't change anything here >.< I guess the best thing to do is to look in another direction and maybe the result does not have to a pdf...
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