Fonts and curly quotes

My project, a J2EE/Struts project uses BIRT to type out a complex form, and we have what may be the most common problem people seem to have with fonts. Whena field from the database has non-ASCII characters, BIRT's PDF output displays them as question marks. People copy and paste documents from Microsoft Word, and Unicode characters U+201C and U+201D commonly make it into the database. HTML output works just fine.

Given a vanilla set of configuration files, what changes must I make to show non-ASCII characters correctly?

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mwilliams

Hi erjablow,

What version of BIRT are you using?

erjablow

We're using 2.2, but it seems that this one is caused by our improper handling of characters outside the U+0000 to U+00FF Unicode block in our database. It probably isn't a BIRT problem at all, and I am sorry I wasted your time.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow

mwilliams

It's no problem at all, Eric.