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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000754 | libextractor | extract | public | 2004-08-30 02:30 | 2004-12-25 14:56 |
| Reporter | keichwa | Assigned To | Christian Grothoff | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 0000754: extracting non-ascii PDF info | ||||
| Description | PDF info is allowed to be utf8 or UTF-16 encoded. extract does not seem the output encoding right if used from an UTF-8 terminal. For testing you may use http://www.gasl.org/refbib/Verne__Gruener_Strahl.pdf | ||||
| Additional Information | Mike FABIAN and Takashi Iwai fixed this problem for pdfinfo ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/9.1/i586/xpdf-3.00-64.17.i586.rpm resp. source: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/9.1/src/xpdf-3.00-64.17.src.rpm | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| libextractor's PDF plugin is based on xpdf 0.93, so yes, we're likely to have inherited a lot of problems right there. Is this bug fixed in the main xpdf tree or only in a SuSE-RPM patch? | |
| I don't know whether the bug is already fixed upstream, sorry. Turning xpdf into a library would be a good thing (maybe, there is already work in progress to make this happen?). | |
| Stupid question: how do I reproduce this bug? The output looks fine in my console. The reason is probably that my console is not a UTF-8 terminal. How do I switch into UTF-8 mode!? | |
| Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> replied: cat ~/bin/uxterm #!/bin/bash export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 xterm -fn '-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1' \ -geom 80x40 -T 'xterm UTF-8' $* | |
| Ok, this is fixed in my code now -- finally. However, if you have some PDF documents that use unicode to encode meta-data (or other documents that do not use ISO-8859-1), I'd love to get my hands on them to do some extra testing. | |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-08-30 02:30 | keichwa | New Issue | |
| 2004-08-30 02:44 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0001868 | |
| 2004-08-30 02:44 | Christian Grothoff | Status | new => acknowledged |
| 2004-08-30 03:50 | keichwa | Note Added: 0001869 | |
| 2004-10-05 10:21 | Christian Grothoff | Status | acknowledged => assigned |
| 2004-10-05 10:21 | Christian Grothoff | Assigned To | => Christian Grothoff |
| 2004-10-05 12:35 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0001919 | |
| 2004-10-07 11:59 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0001920 | |
| 2004-12-25 12:53 | Christian Grothoff | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2004-12-25 12:53 | Christian Grothoff | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2004-12-25 12:53 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0001974 | |
| 2004-12-25 14:56 | Christian Grothoff | Status | resolved => closed |