Polish characters in mappReport

[Alex (Alexandre Gallet)]

Hello,

I have a small problem with the Polish characters (Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ź, Ż) in mappReport. As you can see in the PDF files attached to this email, the Polish characters are replaced by dots …
In mappReport configuration, I have a choice of several fonts, but neither “Courier”, “Helvetica” nor “TimesRoman” works for Polish characters !!!

However, as you can see in the print screen of my mappView screen, the Polish characters are displayed perfectly in mappView!
For the record, the screenshot corresponds to the PDF I want to create!

Can I configure something somewhere so that these characters are displayed?

PAGE_230_Screwed_2025_07_25_08_19_40.pdf (6.1 KB)

[michael_w]

Hi there,

This help page specifies the characters that may be used. Unfortunately it does not seem to allow for the polish characters you are looking for.

If you need those anyway, I would try to request this as a feature with your local support team.

Best regards
Michael

[kovarj (Jaroslav Kovar)]

@Alex

Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ź, Ż

According to help mpReport uses ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1)

https://help.br-automation.com/#/en/4/mapptechnology/mapp_services/mpreport/config/erklarung_der_konfiguration/einstellungen.html

ChatGPT

ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) by itself does not include Polish characters. This standard only covers Western European languages (English, German, French, Spanish, etc.), but not Polish.

The Polish characters Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ź, Ż are part of ISO/IEC 8859-2 (Latin-2, “Central European”), not Latin-1.

The Arial font fully supports these characters, but if you are using 8859-1 encoding, the system/user will not see them correctly (they will appear as squares, question marks, or other symbols).