Arabic Font Not Appearing in Birt 3.7.1 PDF Report

Question

• Environment: Birt 3.7.1 / Maximo 7.5.0.4 / Sun Solaris 10

• Problem: Arabic Font Not Appearing in Birt 3.7.1 PDF Report generated from Maximo 7.5.0.4 Application running on Sun Solaris 10.

• Details:

  1. Birt Viewer is displaying the report correctly with Arabic font as HTML and MS Word, but PDF is eliminating the Arabic characters completely.
  2. I changed the encoding in both files fontsConfig.xml and fontsConfig.xml from cp1252 to cp1256, in the generated PDF file from Maximo the Arabic letter were replaced by '?'
  3. I changed the encoding from to utf-8 as per advise in one of the web notes, but again Arabic disappeared from the PDF.
  4. The PDF report shows the Arabic correctly from windows environment.

Kindly advise.

Answer 1

Birt doesn't understand arabic well, in my case i use a localization which holds Arabic language in it as Unicode