Unicode Currency Symbols not rendering in BIRT pdf

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<p>Hi, we need help with getting the Costa Rican Colon, South Korea Won, Philippine Peso, and Indian Rupee currency symbols to display when running a BIRT pdf report. Within our .rptDesign we have 5 Text Items (HTML Dynamic Text) that contains a Unicode to display currency symbols. Out of the 5 currency symbols none of them display except for the Israeli Shekel (&#8362;). Please see the attachment for the list of currency symbols and unicodes.</p>
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<p>We are running BIRT 3.7.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago). We have two rpm of fonts that are installed with tomcat rpm, msttcorefonts-2.5 and fonts-chinese-3.02.  The fonts have not been updated in long time, so we updated to the latest 2.6.1 version; <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts2/files/'>https://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts2/files/</a&gt; and rpm</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm'>https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm</a></span></span></p&gt;
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<p>The font package that was installed (<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/'>http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/</a&gt; 2.5.1) , BIRT font configuration</p>
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<p><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">font</span></span></span><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">></span></span></span></p>
<p>       <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">font-paths</span></span></span><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">></span></span></span></p>
<p>        <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">path</span></span></span><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <span style="color:#7f007f;">path</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span></span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts"</span></em> <span style="color:#008080;">/></span></p>
<p>              <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">path</span></span></span><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <span style="color:#7f007f;">path</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span></span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"</span></em> <span style="color:#008080;">/></span></p>
<p>       <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"></</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">font-paths</span></span></span><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">></span></span></span></p>
<p>       <span style="color:#3f5fbf;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><!--</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#3f5fbf;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">       Not All Chinese Characters Displaying in report</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#3f5fbf;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">              - Overriding the all-fonts BIRT report configuration to use Simplified Chinese (STSong-Light) </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#3f5fbf;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">                font encoding catalog instead of Traditional Chinese (MSung-Light). </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#3f5fbf;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">              - BIRT's default PDF font configuration is in <u>plugins</u>\org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.fonts\fontsConfig_pdf.xml</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#3f5fbf;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">              - BIRT bug (Bug 427672)</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#3f5fbf;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">       --></span></span></span></p>
<p>       <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">composite-font</span></span></span><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <span style="color:#7f007f;">name</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span></span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"all-fonts"</span></em><span style="color:#008080;">></span></p>
<p>              <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">font</span></span></span><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <span style="color:#7f007f;">font-family</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span></span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"Times-Roman"</span></em> <span style="color:#7f007f;">catalog</span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"Western"</span></em> <span style="color:#008080;">/></span></p>
<p>              <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">font</span></span></span><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <span style="color:#7f007f;">font-family</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span></span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"STSong-Light"</span></em> <span style="color:#7f007f;">catalog</span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"Chinese"</span></em> <span style="color:#008080;">/></span></p>
<p>              <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">font</span></span></span><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <span style="color:#7f007f;">font-family</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span></span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"HeiseiKakuGo-W5"</span></em> <span style="color:#7f007f;">catalog</span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"Japanese"</span></em> <span style="color:#008080;">/></span></p>
<p>              <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">font</span></span></span><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <span style="color:#7f007f;">font-family</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span></span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"HYGoThic-Medium"</span></em> <span style="color:#7f007f;">catalog</span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span><em><span style="color:#2a00ff;">"Korean"</span></em> <span style="color:#008080;">/></span></p>
<p>       <span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"></</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">composite-font</span></span></span><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"></</span></span></span><span style="color:#3f7f7f;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">font</span></span></span><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:consolas;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">></span></span></span></p>
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<p>The debugging we did like echo –e “<<Unicode>>” to confirm the character is available in OS, but not getting rendered in BIRT.</p>
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<p>Would anyone know why none of the symbols display except for Israeli Shekel (&#8362;) and how can we get the other currency symbols display when rendering the report in pdf? Thanks!</p>