I believe it's a PDF font issue, I had the same problem in jasper reports which also uses iText, and had no luck after trying to use their asian fonts JAR to get chinese characters. See here: http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/fonts/index.php Post back if you have any success... "rmemoria" wrote : Hi, | | It's like that: | | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> | | <p:document xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" | | xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" | | xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" | | xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf" | | orientation="landscape"> | | | | <f:facet name="header"> | | <p:font size="6"> | | <p:footer borderWidthTop="1" alignment="left">Drug Management System [<p:pageNumber />]</p:footer> | | </p:font> | | </f:facet> | | The encoding is thesame I use in my xhtml pages, but in PDFs the special unicode chars aren't displayed. | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4097300#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...