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Changing ireport to use unicode for fields

How can i change or force ireport to display unicode characters like russian etc.? I have tried searching it on jasper site but had no luck or relevant answers.

I have this in the XML 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports"

<textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$F{NEWSTATUS}]]></textFieldExpression>

Also have this screenshots for the pdf report

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The Excel one shows it correct

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Using iReport 3.7.2 fontName : Tahoma. CSV report also works correct .

Solution

  • It is a matter of fonts. You can attach a font library to use any font you like: Use custom fonts when creating pdf using iReport or just use Arial which works fine with Cyrillic.