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Does anyone have any knowledge of including non-English characters (e.g. Chinese) on a PDF template?  I've got a customer that is in the US, so the invoice needs to be in English, but there's a single line item field that may or may not have a description in Chinese in it.  It appears fine within the actual NetSuite invoice, but when the invoice renders as a PDF, that field is blank.  Any ideas?

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Almost recommend usually go through STSong font-family first. for chinese

I could be wrong, but it's one of the font-family compatible for both simplified and traditional chinese.

But... it's not pretty.

the hierarchy for chinese characters goes like this in freemarker
```sans-serif, STSong, MSung, MHei, HeiseiMin```
For us,

<@UHFES4MQQ> Thanks for this.  I've read the NetSuite help article and still a little confused as to what I need to change and where in the PDF template (I'm quite new to this).  The field in question is a line item field which may sometimes have English text in it, bt sometimes might have Chinese, Japanese etc instead, so it needs to be able to handle both.  The other fields on the invoice will all be in Enhlish.