GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 172846
copying non-ASCII characters does not work
Last modified: 2005-04-08 14:14:28 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 another example: http://www.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/studsekr/rechtsgrundlagen/ordnungen/11/1103901.pdf Try to copy "Prüfungsordnung" (page 1, first word) or any or other word containing an umlaut. xpdf 3.00 and acroread 7.0.0 don't have this problem. This was originally reported to the mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2005-March/msg00033.html
Another example: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~udatk/evince/oowriter1.pdf This one was created with OpenOffice.org on Fedora Core 3.
Sounds like a poppler bug, please follow these instructions: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/helping.html#poppler
Reported to poppler bugzilla: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2934. Closing NOTGNOME.