diff --git a/src/UglyToad.PdfPig.Tests/Integration/LaTexTests.cs b/src/UglyToad.PdfPig.Tests/Integration/LaTexTests.cs
index cba50576..c1f028be 100644
--- a/src/UglyToad.PdfPig.Tests/Integration/LaTexTests.cs
+++ b/src/UglyToad.PdfPig.Tests/Integration/LaTexTests.cs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
                 var page2 = document.GetPage(2);
 
-                Assert.Contains("isθc={θc1,θc2,...,θcn},", page2.Text);
+                Assert.Contains("is~θc={θc1,θc2,...,θcn},", page2.Text);
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/ContentStreamProcessor.cs b/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/ContentStreamProcessor.cs
index 915f8130..7568dc54 100644
--- a/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/ContentStreamProcessor.cs
+++ b/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/ContentStreamProcessor.cs
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@
                 if (!foundUnicode || unicode == null)
                 {
                     log.Warn($"We could not find the corresponding character with code {code} in font {font.Name}.");
+                    // Try casting directly to string as in PDFBox 1.8.
+                    unicode = new string((char)code, 1);
                 }
 
                 var wordSpacing = 0m;