title: iTextRendered - Russian Characters in PDF
body: <p>I'm using iText2.0.8 to generate PDF files.</p>
  
  <p>In brief here's what the code looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>FileOutputStream fOut = new FileOutputStream(fileFullPath);
  ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
  renderer.setDocumentFromString(str); //str is HTML fetched from a velocity template
  renderer.layout();
  renderer.createPDF(fOut);
  fOut.close();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This works fine. However, when I have Russian characters, they simply show up 'blank' in the PDF. I tried to convert the fetched HTML string to UTF-8 but then the Russian Characters started to show up gibberish.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know a way around this?</p>