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Bug 338940 - Accented characters are badly displayed when selected
Accented characters are badly displayed when selected
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-18 20:57 UTC by Guillaume Desmottes
Modified: 2006-05-28 21:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14

Attachments
Screenshot of sample Thai text in PDF (12.66 KB, image/png)
2006-05-01 04:11 UTC, Isriya Paireepairit 		Details
Screenshot of selected Thai text with missing vowels (17.65 KB, image/png)
2006-05-01 04:12 UTC, Isriya Paireepairit 		Details

Description Guillaume Desmottes 2006-04-18 20:57:03 UTC 
To reproduce:
- Open this file: http://cass.no-ip.com/~cassidy/files/brol/test.pdf
- Select the first line

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.
Comment 1 Isriya Paireepairit 2006-05-01 04:09:48 UTC 
I can confirm this with Thai text. Thai language has above-level vowels, which are similar to accent mark in term of display.

Some of these vowels are missing when selected. This doesn't happened with Adobe Reader 7.0 on the same Linux machine.
Comment 2 Isriya Paireepairit 2006-05-01 04:11:10 UTC 
Created attachment 64597 [details]
Screenshot of sample Thai text in PDF
Comment 3 Isriya Paireepairit 2006-05-01 04:12:12 UTC 
Created attachment 64598 [details]
Screenshot of selected Thai text with missing vowels
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2006-05-28 21:26:48 UTC 
Bug forwared to Poppler: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7064