BaseFont.DirectTextToByte

Hello,

I was trying to determine how why certain symbols were not appearing on PDF forms created through iTextSharp, and came across BaseFont.DirectTextToByte.  After setting this property to true, the symbols now appear on the PDF form.  As an example, I want to use the ‘Registered’ symbol (decimal #174) in the Arial TTF.  Leaving BaseFont.DirectTextToByte at its default value (false) produces a blank, but setting the value to true produces the proper symbol.

I searched the archives and looked in iText in Action, but could not find any information about this property.  Is there any reason why it should not be set to true all the time?  So far in my tests, I have not had any problems with setting it to true for all text produced through iTextSharp.

Thank you