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Oracle Reports 11.1.2 junk Arabic characters in PDF

User_A7RKTOct 6 2014 — edited Oct 6 2014

Hi guys,

When I generate a report with Arabic characters, they appear as junk characters.

I did the following:

  • Set NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AR8MSWIN1256
  • Include C:\WINDOWS\Fonts in REPORTS_PATH (in the Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_OH258674538 )
  • Open uifont.ali and set the font alias:

   [PDF:Subset]

   "Arabic Transparent"...Bold.. ="arialbd.ttf"

   "Arabic Transparent"="arialbd.ttf"

  • Installed Arabic keyboard in Windows server that hosts Reports server
  • Changed the location to United Arab Emirates in Windows
  • Run the report with DESTYPE=FILE and DESFORMAT=PDF

I also tried to change the font name of the field that contains the Arabic data in the report to things like: Tahoma, Arial, Courier New, but with no luck.

Environment Specs:

  • OS: Windows 2008 R2
  • Oracle Reports 11.1.2 (installed on the top of Weblogic 10.3.6.0)

Thanks in advance.
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