fonts - How can I render hindi correctly when exporting to pdf?

Question

I am using i-report 5.5.0 for jasper reports. I need to export Hindi text into PDF format, but Hindi part is getting converted to ???????.

I have already used font extension but it didn't helped:

font name: "lohit Devanagari"
PDF embedded: checked
PDF encoding:Identity-H

I have also tried other Hindi fonts but nothing worked so far..

<textField>
    <reportElement x="111" y="26" width="100" height="20" uuid="5a471a16-de7b-4f55-9c9f-b01d37938b9f"/>
     <textElement>
        <font fontName="Lohit Devanagari" pdfEncoding="Identity-H" isPdfEmbedded="false"/>
    </textElement>
    <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{DISTRICT_NAME}]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>

Answer 1

this worked for me

IndicLigaturizer ?hindi = new DevanagariLigaturizer();
String result = hindi.process(string);