Dear All,

I'm trying to generate PDF containing japanese text using XSLT templates. Input data for XSLT is coming from XML containing unicode characters as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ReceiptData>
    <adminReceiptHeader>\u3053\u306e\u66f8\u985e\u3092 \u5927\u5207\u306b\u4fdd\u7ba1\u3057\u3066\u304f\u 3060\u3055\u3044\u3002</adminReceiptHeader>


....

</ReceiptData>

This XML is taken as input for the following XSLT snippet which outputs XSL-FO ; later converted to PDF uing FOP procesor. I'm using custom font 'msmincho.ttf' throughout XSLT body and titles.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
    xmlns:barcode="org.krysalis.barcode4j.xalan.Barcod eExt" extension-element-prefixes="barcode"
    version="1.1">

    <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <fo:root>

            <fo:layout-master-set>
                <fo:simple-page-master master-name="POSReceipt" page-height="20cm" page-width="8cm"
                    margin-top="2cm" margin-bottom="0.5cm" margin-left="0.5cm" margin-right="0.5cm">
                    <fo:region-body margin-top="1.1cm" margin-bottom="0.5cm"/>
                    <fo:region-before extent="1cm"/>

                </fo:simple-page-master>
            </fo:layout-master-set>

            <fo:page-sequence master-reference="POSReceipt">
                <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                    <fo:block>
                        <xsl:call-template name="adminReceiptHeader"/>
                        <xsl:call-template name="adminReceiptBody"/>
                        <xsl:call-template name="adminReceiptFooter"/>
                    </fo:block>
                </fo:flow>
            </fo:page-sequence>

        </fo:root>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="adminReceiptHeader">
        <xsl:if test="//header/text() != ''">
            <fo:block text-align="center" color="black"
                font-size="8pt" space-after=".2cm">
                <fo:inline font-weight="bold">
                  <xsl:value-of select="//adminReceiptHeader"/>
                </fo:inline>
            </fo:block>
        </xsl:if>

..............

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


My problem is that the output pdf does not contain Japanese characters as desired. It rather contains same unicode characters like \u3053\u306e as paased in input XML. Any help in this regard is greatly appreciated.

"\u3053" is the Java representation of Unicode characters. The XML representation is "#x3053;"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

If I replace "\u3053" with "#x3053;" in my Input XML; output PDF now contains "#x3053;" instead of its Japanese equivalent.

Sorry, the forum software drops ampersands for some reason. That should have been "@#x3053;" where the @ character represents an ampersand.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I'm now getting sequence of # printed on PDF which does not seem to be Japanese character either. I have tried both the decimal (beginning with ampersand and hash) and hexadecimal equivalent (beginning with ampersand, hash and x) of the unicode character.

Hi, the problem is resolved now. My stylesheet was not picking up the MSMincho font correctly. I re-defined it, retained the '#x' change and its working now. Thanks very much for your help.