[PDFBOX-3746] Improve font encoding for interactive form fields with capable embedded font

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.5, 2.0.6
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Maruan Sahyoun
• Created: 06/Apr/17 05:49
• Updated: 09/May/18 07:29

Description

As discussed at

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3138
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42903217/write-cyrillic-chars-into-pdf-form-fields-with-pdfbox
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43223959/character-not-available-in-this-fonts-encoding

we should improve the font handling similar to how Adobe Acrobat handles it if the embedded font contains the needed characters.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: PDFBOX-3138 PDTextField doesn't accept any Hebrew characters as new value