title: Unicode symbols in iTextSharp
body: <p>I'm trying to use a Unicode symbol in my PDF file with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IText" rel="nofollow">iTextSharp</a>.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Dim base As BaseFont = BaseFont.CreateFont("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\WINGDING.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED)
  
  Dim wd As Font = New Font(base, 12, Font.NORMAL, BaseColor.BLACK)
  phrase = New Phrase("q", wd)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's the Q.Key in Wingding. But in the PDF file it's not working.
  It just prints nothing where the Char should be.</p>
  
  <p>Where is the error?</p>