Bug 7065

Summary:	Accented characters are badly copied
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume.desmottes>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	mpsuzuki
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	unselected text (correct) selected text (broken)

Description Guillaume Desmottes 2006-05-29 07:30:12 UTC

Transfering this bug from GNOME Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338942

To reproduce:
- Open this file: http://cass.no-ip.com/~cassidy/files/brol/test.pdf
- Copy the first line
- Paste it in gedit

The text pasted is:
Bugs : ´ ` c `
       ea¸e

(The selection is badly displayed, see bug 338940).

I use evine 0.5.2 with poppler 0.5.1 (Ubuntu Dapper).
The pdf was created from http://cass.no-ip.com/~cassidy/files/brol/test.tex.

I'm not sure if this bug is a dup of bug 2981. If it is, feel free to close it.

Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2006-05-29 07:32:47 UTC

This bug is maybe related to bug 7063 and bug 7064

Comment 2 Enver ALTIN 2007-05-09 14:31:58 UTC

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435829

It seems like it's the same problem, this time with Turkish text. I'm copying attachments from that bug over here.

Comment 3 Enver ALTIN 2007-05-09 14:33:25 UTC

Description from GNOME bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435829

I've got a PDF file which contains embedded fonts, and I can view this file
perfectly. The file contains Turkish characters such as
öçşığüÖÇŞİĞÜ. But when I try to select some text, these characters
are displayed as squares.

Steps to reproduce:
Create a PDF file which contains one or more of these characters:
"öçşığüÖÇŞİĞÜ", open it and try selecting this text.

Comment 4 Enver ALTIN 2007-05-09 14:34:31 UTC

Created attachment 9908 [details]
unselected text (correct)

Comment 5 Enver ALTIN 2007-05-09 14:36:59 UTC

Created attachment 9909 [details]
selected text (broken)

Comment 6 agang.lu 2010-08-25 20:04:02 UTC

My guess is that it's a problem of evince rather than of poppler. Since epdfview and evince both use glib and poppler, epdfview has no problem at all with text-selection-rendering for non-ascii characters.

Comment 7 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 10:54:14 UTC

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