title: BIRT PDF UTF-8 encoding
body: <p>I have some trouble with <strong>BIRT</strong> 4.3.1, I want to create some PDF with <strong>BIRT</strong>. This works all fine, but I have some problems with the encoding of my font.</p>
  
  <p>For my font I am using Arial Narrow. This isn't a standard font which BIRT support. So I know that I must edit the fontsConfig_pdf.xml file in the JAR org.eclipse.birt.runtime_4.3.1.v20130918-1142.jar file. Here look at my config file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;font&gt;
      &lt;composite-font name="all-fonts" font-family="Arial Narrow"&gt;
      &lt;/composite-font&gt;
      &lt;!-- define used Fonts --&gt;
      &lt;font-paths&gt;
          &lt;path path="/etc/fonts/ARIALN.TTF" /&gt;
      &lt;/font-paths&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Encoding --&gt;
      &lt;font-encodings&gt;
          &lt;encoding font-family="Arial Narrow" encoding="UTF-8" /&gt;
      &lt;/font-encodings&gt;     
  &lt;/font&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have put my font TTF file inside the location. All works fine, but the encoding is wrong for special signs. </p>
  
  <p>Some hint to you, the encoding works well in my Windows-Machine but on my Linux-System it doesn't work. Maybe someone could give me a tip.</p>