This article will provide best practices and a checklist for all the requirements to display non-English character sets in a PDF document.
- If dealing with Asian characters, a specific Acrobat package must be installed and can be found on Adobe’s support download.
This install is required, even on an Asian computer.
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The chosen font must contain the characters that are to be displayed. You 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 characters. If the characters need to be displayed in a table, the size of the cells must be set accordingly.
At the time of this writing, there is a known issue within Acrobat dealing with listboxes and Chinese characters. More details can be found here.