extract asian language text from a PDF

[nayya7choti@adobeforums.com]

Hi,

In a plug-in implemtation, i want to get japanese or someother asian language text from a PDF programatically, but i want to keep the Regional language option in control panel to "US English" only(As it is supporting Engilsh language OS and pdf most of the time), Is it possible to extract japanese text(means get japanese characters and store them in a CString)without setting Regional language option to japanese.
if yes what more i have to do for getting japanese characters from
PDWordFinder pdWordF = PDDocGetWordFinder(pdDoc, WF_LATEST_VERSION);
PDWordFinderEnumWords (pdWordF ,IndexPage, WordProc,(void *)&llWordSequence); functions.

thanks a lot

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

Can you get the text in Japanese (or whatever language)? Of course! you can extract it as Unicode and then (if you wish) convert it to other encodings such as SJIS, etc.

Should you store those in a CString? probably not, since that's not a great place to store non-ASCII strings. You could, but most folks recommend against it.

[nayya7choti@adobeforums.com]

if i set Regional option to japanese am getting text in japanese,but if i set it to US English, am just am getting Unicode values for japanese text, for japanese characters it is showing some invalid chars like '?' or other,
Is it possible to get those correct characters without setting it to japanese?

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

AH...

It sounds like you are confusing getting the correct Unicode code-points from the text (which you are ARE getting) AND having an available font to display them.

So I don't know what you are doing with the text you are retrieving - but it's fine. Just be sure to set the correct font before you try to draw it...

[nayya7choti@adobeforums.com]

want that text to create bookmarks in that pdf, so i want japanese text in order to create bookmarks, but here am not getting the actual characters, but just numberical values(just like ascii values in case of english characters)and for characters it is showing some junk(say '?').

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

HOW are you creating the bookmarks? Remember that since you have Unicode text coming from the document, you need to flag the string in the bookmark title as being in Unicode...that means putting the BOM in front.