how to display korean characters in BIRT Viewer?

Hello,

i want to display Korean characters that are retrieved from my DB in my BIRT viewer. these characters are displayed as garbage. do you know how can i make it work?
note that when i hard code Korean characters (like copy korean words from the internet and paste them in my rptdesign) they are properly displayed in my BIRT viewer. only retrieved values from the DB are not properly displayed.

any clue?

regards
Boulos

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ahsiang

Which DB did you use and are they Unicode? Also did you try using Unicode font or any other Korean font for the data item? I have seen my Korean partner done their report with Korean font.

boulos

Hello ahsiang.

thanks for your reply. I am using a Sybase DB. i dont know how to check the encoding setting of this DB. actually i am inserting the Korean Characters from an interface which is connected to this DB. i am simply copying and pasting a korean string into my interface and when i save, the string is sent to the DB and stored there. the only problem is viewing this string from BIRT viewer. it shows garbage. how can i know if the DB is unicode?

P.S. i didnt get ur last question "Also did you try using Unicode font or any other Korean font for the data item?" could you pelase rephrase?

regards
Boulos

ahsiang

I have not used Sybase but you can google it and there should be many site with advise such as the below. Give it a try.

http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc01284.0155/doc/html/vhu1287526118180.html

As for the font, can you try changing the text item font to Arial Unicode MS and see if it still gives you garbage? Which OS and locale are you using for your Windows PC?