Is there a way to set the Document encoding?

Hello everyone;

I'm trying to set the encoding in a PDF.

The encoding project is in UTF-8, because the database has that encoding. But when i generate the document, i add paragraphs with others characters, like Ñ, ñ, á, é, í, ó, ú, °. So, to keep the encoding, i made this function:

    public static String stringFormatoUTF8(String stringIN)
    {
        try
        {
            if (stringIN.length() == 0)
            {
                stringIN = " ";
            }
           
            byte[] arrayAux = stringIN.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
            String stringOUT = new String(arrayAux, "UTF-8");

            return stringOUT;
        }
        catch(IOException error)
        {
            System.err.println(error.getMessage());
            return "";
        }
    }

And i call it in this way:

cell = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph( Fmt.stringFormatoUTF8("N° Operación:"), font12B ));

But, for each paragraph that i add in the document, i must call the function.

Is there a way to set the document encoding?, like, for example, document.setEncoding("UTF-8");

I'm using iText 5.3.3

Hope you understand me.

Thank you!

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