Multibyte special characters in fpPDF

[sierdolg]

Hello,
is it possible to generate a PDF containing multibyte characters (UTF-8) e.g. like a "ballot box" (UTF-8: 0xE2 0x98 0x90), and if so, how?

I tried

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1. var
2.   myPDF: TPDFDocument;
3.   S: TPDFSection;
4.   P: TPDFPage;
5.   F: TFileStream;
6.   FtTextRegular : Integer;
7. begin
8.   myPDF := TPDFDocument.Create(Nil);
9.   myPDF.Options := [poPageOriginAtTop];
10.   myPDF.StartDocument;
11.   S := myPDF.Sections.AddSection;
12.   P := myPDF.Pages.AddPage;
13.   P.PaperType := ptA4;
14.   P.UnitOfMeasure := uomMillimeters;
15.   S.AddPage(P);
16.   FtTextRegular := myPDF.AddFont('cabin.ttf', 'Cabin');
17.   P.SetFont(FtTextRegular, 12);
18.   P.SetColor(clBlack, false);
19.   P.WriteText(50, 50, 'ANSI-Text works');
20.   P.WriteText(50, 70, UTF8Decode('this way also ä,ö,ü etc.'));
21.   P.WriteText(50, 90, UTF8Decode('but multibyte characters like ballot boxes ⮽ or ☐ will not work'));
22.   F := TFileStream.Create('test.pdf',fmCreate);
23.   try
24.     myPDF.SaveToStream(F);
25.   finally
26.     F.Free;
27.   end;
28.  
29. end;            

Analyzing the PDF you find "EF BF BF EF DF BD" instead of "BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK, UTF-8: 0xE2 0x98 0x91" for example (which show up nonprinting or garbage).