Bug 2934

Summary: copying non-ASCII characters does not work
Product: poppler Reporter: Levin Fritz <levinfritz>
Component: generalAssignee: Kristian Høgsberg <krh>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: Change default text encoding to UTF-8

Description Levin Fritz 2005-04-08 07:08:31 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 3

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open http://www.aetat.no/data//f/0/24/53/1_702_0/rapporten_hele2004.pdf in
evince.
2) Go to page 5.
3) Select the first line.
4) Try to paste the text into gedit (or some other app).

Actual results:
No text is pasted into gedit.
Evince prints the following message to stdout:
(evince:11622): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Invalid
byte sequence in conversion input

Expected results:
The selected text should be pasted into gedit.

This happens only with text that contains non-ASCII characters such as ø and æ.

Here's two more examples:
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~udatk/evince/oowriter1.pdf
http://www.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/studsekr/rechtsgrundlagen/ordnungen/11/1103901.pdf
Try to copy "Prüfungsordnung" (page 1, first word) or any other word that
contains an umlaut.

xpdf 3.00 and acroread 7.0.0 don't have this problem.

I originally reported this to Evince bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172846
Comment 1 Martin Kretzschmar 2005-04-27 12:34:44 UTC 
Created attachment 2577 [details] [review]
Change default text encoding to UTF-8

That's an easy one! Just change the default text encoding to UTF-8.

Maybe GlobalParams::textEncoding should even be totally deprecated and
unchangeable in poppler.

(To test with evince, use the EVINCE_0_2_1 tag, HEAD is broken wrt. clipboard
stuff).
Comment 2 Kristian Høgsberg 2005-04-28 16:03:39 UTC 
Patch committed, closing bug.

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