itext Marathi (indian) language display issue

Question

I am evaluating iText as a PDFGenerator for java swing application. The output is supposed to be in \"Marathi\", which is a local Indian langauge similar to hindi but not sa

Answer 1

Unless included in one of the most recent versions, iText does not support the Devanāgarī writing system.

In some writing systems, there is no one-to-one relation between the actual letter and the correct glyph, but the glyph shape differs depending on e.g. the surrounding glyphs or its position within a word. To render the text correctly, the type setting software needs to implement these rules and AFAIK, iText implements such rules only for Arabic.