create pdf from html string using itext

Hi ,
I want to create pdf from the string containg html data, thought it works fine with English content but does not work when i try to convert it with japan, china, taiwan korea content.

My code snipet is as below:

StringBuffer htmlStr = new StringBuffer("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>");
   			[size=12]htmlStr.append("<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd'>");
   			htmlStr.append("<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>");
   			htmlStr.append("<body>");
   			htmlStr.append("<h2 style='color: #353535;font-size: 16px;margin: 0px;padding: 20px 0px;font-weight: bold;'>"+listNewsVO.get(0).getTitle()+"</h2>");
   			htmlStr.append("<div id='news-details' class='news-details'>");
   			htmlStr.append("<div class='news-details-data'>");
   			htmlStr.append("some japanes charactors");
   			htmlStr.append("</div></div>");
   			htmlStr.append("</body></html>");
   			
   			URL url = getClass().getResource("/resources");
   	        os = new FileOutputStream("D:/abc.pdf");
   			ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
   			renderer.setDocumentFromString(htmlStr.toString());
   			renderer.layout();
   	        renderer.createPDF(os,true);
   	        os.flush();
			os.close()[/size]

Please let us know what can be done, its very urgent.

thanks in advance

Hi,

This is an encoding problem. iText is not using utf-8 .Check that.

Vishal

Hi Vishal,
thanks for quick reply,
can you suggest , how can i tweak my code to make it work?
thanks

Jigar Gajjar wrote:Hi Vishal,
thanks for quick reply,
can you suggest , how can i tweak my code to make it work?
thanks

you can check this link. But first, are you sure that your htmlStr is holding the correct encoded string, if not , you need to correct that first.