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This article will give a check list about provide best practices and a checklist for all the requirements to display non-english English character sets in a PDF document.

  • If dealing with Asian characters, a specific Acrobat package must be installed and can be dowloaded on the following page:

https://supportdownloads.adobe.com/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=6484&fileID=6484

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This install is required, even on an Asian computer.

  • The chosen font must contain the characters that are to be displayed. It can be checked with the Character map on Windows, for exampleYou can verify this step by checking the character map on your operating system: Windows, macOS, or Linux.

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  • Some foreign characters may have a larger vertical size than english ones, so if English characters. If the characters have need to be displayed in a table, the size of the cells must be set accordingly.There

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At the time of this writing, there is a known issue within Acrobat

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dealing with listboxes and Chinese characters.

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More details can be found

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here.

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