Special character encoding issue on Solaris with weblogic server - pdf

Question

I have an application which uses fop and xslt to generate the PDF file. The special characters as §£?ÐÅÆ are appearing as ???? in PDF.
The weblogic server is running on solaris machine.
I have already tried with
<charset-params>
<input-charset>
<resource-path>/*</resource-path>
<java-charset-name>UTF-8</java-charset-name>
</input-charset>
<charset-mapping>
<iana-charset-name>UTF-8</iana-charset-name>
<java-charset-name>UTF-8</java-charset-name>
</charset-mapping>
</charset-params>
in weblogic.xml.
I have also tried with
transformer.setOutputProperty( OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2");
transformer.setOutputProperty( OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
Nothing seems to be working over there.

Answer 1

Have you set up fop to find fonts with those characters in? For instance, on Solaris 11
using fop (though not with weblogic) I had to set up paths for fonts in a fop-conf.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- NOTE: This is the version of the configuration -->
<fop version="1.0">
<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/pdf">
<fonts>
<!-- register all the fonts found in a directory -->
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/core/</directory>
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/dejavu/</directory>
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/liberation/</directory>
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/unifont/</directory>
<!-- register all the fonts found in a directory and all of its sub directories (use with care) -->
<!-- directory recursive="true">C:\MyFonts2</directory -->
<!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts -->
<auto-detect/>
</fonts>
</renderer>
<renderer mime="application/postscript">
<fonts>
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/</directory>
<directory>/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/</directory>
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/core/</directory>
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/dejavu/</directory>
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/liberation/</directory>
<directory>/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/unifont/</directory>
</fonts>
</renderer>
</renderers>
</fop>
(Font paths will be different on older versions of Solaris.)
For more details, see:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AddFont.html#ConfigFontFop