Itext Arabic Font coming as question marks

Question

I am new to iText library. I have a requirement where i need to provide the output as PDF. The pdf has Arabic characters in it. I created a test servlet as given below.

Answer 1

Your problem is where you're creating the BaseFont with the Windows CP1252 Character Set, which is only suitable for latin characters. Try the encoding for Unicode instead:

 BaseFont bf  = BaseFont.createFont("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\ARIALUNI.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, true);