muntealb
January 1st, 2008, 11:11 AM
If I want to open a PDF file and use the Typewriter Tool to add some text, Foxit cannot display correctly some romanian characters with diacritics (I use the romanian keyboard layout of course). The letters Ă (A with breve), Ş (S with cedilla) and Ţ (T with cedilla) are not displayed well, especially the latter two. What is strange is that those letters can be used with the Caret Annotation Tool and Note Tool and are displayed correctly this time. So the problem is only with the Typewriter Tool. This module seems to support at this time only ANSI encoding (latin alphabet letters used in the west-european languages).
But there is more. Actually Ş and Ţ are not the correct romanian letters. From Windows 98 to Windows XP they were however the only ones that could be used when writing in romanian. In Windows Vista Microsoft finally replaced them with the correct romanian letters: Ș (S with comma) and Ț (T with comma). And these two letters are not displayed well with any commenting tool available in Foxit, because they are displayed correctly only by the programs that fully support Unicode. So the romanians that are using Vista cannot edit (annotate, comment) PDF files with Foxit. Unfortunately for Foxit, the competition (PDF-XChange) displays well not only Ş and Ţ, but also Ș and Ț, so it is fully compatible with Unicode. The Foxit developers must make the program fully Unicode compatible as soon as possible.
But there is more. Actually Ş and Ţ are not the correct romanian letters. From Windows 98 to Windows XP they were however the only ones that could be used when writing in romanian. In Windows Vista Microsoft finally replaced them with the correct romanian letters: Ș (S with comma) and Ț (T with comma). And these two letters are not displayed well with any commenting tool available in Foxit, because they are displayed correctly only by the programs that fully support Unicode. So the romanians that are using Vista cannot edit (annotate, comment) PDF files with Foxit. Unfortunately for Foxit, the competition (PDF-XChange) displays well not only Ş and Ţ, but also Ș and Ț, so it is fully compatible with Unicode. The Foxit developers must make the program fully Unicode compatible as soon as possible.