[FOP-1215] PDF crash in PDFText class

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.92
• Component/s: renderer/pdf
• Environment: Operating System: other; Platform: All
• External issue ID: 40106
• Assignee: fop-dev
• Reporter: Jeroen
• Created: 24/Jul/06 21:29
• Updated: 01/Apr/12 07:03
• Resolved: 01/Apr/12 07:03

Description

When rendering any .fo file with text in it AND using a font specified in the
userconfig file, the PDFText class throws an exception. This happens not on a PC
with jre 1.5 but does on Linux, running
java version "1.4.2"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)
I finally nailed it on line

uniBytes = new String(a).getBytes("UnicodeBigUnmarked");

It seems that particular JVM implementation does not support that character
encoding. When I changed it to

uniBytes = new String(a).getBytes("UTF-16BE");

UTF-16BE being the new notation worked on PC *and* the linux box