1542287 - Extra characters added to text when exporting a report to PDF from Crystal Reports

• Incorrect characters.
• Extra character added on top of some alpahabetic characters.
• When exporting a report to PDF format from Crystal Reports, accent are added above some characters.
• If the report contained Arabic characters, it displays the incorrect characters in the PDF document generated.
• When exporting the same report to other format, like MS Word, or MS Excel, the text displays as expected.
    
     
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• SAP Crystal Reports 2016
• SAP Crystal Reports 2020
• SAP Crystal Reports 2025

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