Hi,

I have an Itext document that I need to be translated in english and in chinese. 

The only way I have been able to display the chinese characters is by using the encoding: UniGB-UCS2-H and fontName STSong-Light for all of my p:font. 
Ex:

<p:font size="12" name="STSong-Light" encoding="UniGB-UCS2-H">

Even though everything is saved in UTF-8, I cannot output the chinese characters in utf-8.

Now my problem is I would like to use EL to determine the name the encoding of the font so that I can determine which one touse depending on the locale by doing:
Ex:

<p:font size="12" name="#{purchaseOrderPDFFormAction.fontName}" encoding="#{purchaseOrderPDFFormAction.fontEncoding}">

but the EL is never evaluated.  The fontName is but not the fontEncoding.

Here are the methods:

    public String getFontName() {
         if(getCustomLocale().getLanguage().equals("zh")) {
              return "STSong-Light";
         }
         return "HELVETICA";
    }
    
    public String getFontEncoding() {
         if(getCustomLocale().getLanguage().equals("zh")) {
              return "UniGB-UCS2-H";
         }
         return "utf-8";
    }

I put a breakpoint in both those methods and I can clearly see that it does reach the fontName method but not the fontEncoding.

Any idea how I can do this.  Otherwise I'll have to create 2 itext documents that are exactly the same except for the encoding...which would be quite dissapointing ;)

Thanks for your help