Android write PDF file whith itextpdf pt-BR language

Question

I need write PDF File, and I use this sample(http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/JavaPDF/article.html) with this version "itextpdf-5.4.1.jar".

This create the PDF file, but when the word has "você" write this "você".

I find this code but has not work:

Document document; ... ... document.addLanguage("pt-BR");

How set encoding or language to Brasil?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Take a look at my answer to Divide page in 2 parts so we can fill each with different source (this is year another question answered in The Best iText Questions on StackOverflow). In this example, we read a series of text files that are stored in UTF-8. To achieve this, we use this method:

public Phrase createPhrase(String path) throws IOException {
    Phrase p = new Phrase();
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(path), "UTF8"));
    String str;
    while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
        p.add(str);
    }
    in.close();
    return p;
}

If you remove the "UTF8" and if you read that text as if it were ASCII, then you'd get the same behavior you are describing in your question: each byte would be treated as a single character whereas you have characters that require two bytes.

This is not really an iText question. This is a pure encoding question.