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Bug 397650 - Wrong selection with umlauts
Wrong selection with umlauts
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 526409 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-17 15:12 UTC by Michael Monreal
Modified: 2013-07-04 03:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18

Attachments
Screenshot (8.93 KB, image/png)
2007-01-17 15:13 UTC, Michael Monreal 		Details
testcase (6.96 KB, application/pdf)
2009-12-03 21:47 UTC, Michael Monreal 		Details
testcase source (210 bytes, text/plain)
2009-12-03 21:48 UTC, Michael Monreal 		Details

Description Michael Monreal 2007-01-17 15:12:24 UTC 
When selecting stuff in pdf files I often end up with wrong selections when for example german umlauts are involved. An example:


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    a                                              a            Danach kann die Be-
nutzerin aus allen Gruppen-IDs eine ausw¨hlen. Daraufhin wird ein Textfeld angezeigt,
                                        a
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correctly it would be:

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Danach kann die Be-nutzerin aus allen Gruppen-IDs eine auswählen. Daraufhin wird ein Textfeld angezeigt,
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Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2007-01-17 15:13:12 UTC 
Created attachment 80516 [details]
Screenshot

Screenshot of the selection. mouse was clicked on the bottom right and dragged up
Comment 2 Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-04-28 07:14:48 UTC 
It's probably related to bug 439070
Comment 3 Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-04-28 11:38:57 UTC 
*** Bug 526409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-04-28 11:40:06 UTC 
The same error happens with Herbrew letters as indicated on the duplicate bug 526409
Comment 5 Emmanuel Fleury 2009-08-04 14:56:59 UTC 
Confirmed on trunk.
Comment 6 Emmanuel Fleury 2009-11-30 16:06:10 UTC 
Hmm, I can't reproduce it anymore... I somehow lost the PDF document which had this behavior. If some of you have such a document please attach it to the thread so that one can reproduce this issue.
Comment 7 Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-11-30 22:40:04 UTC 
It seems to work fine with a few random German PDFs I tried. However, the selection is still wrong in the Hebrew PDF from duplicate bug 526409.
Comment 8 Michael Monreal 2009-12-03 21:47:07 UTC 
Created attachment 149043 [details]
testcase

Here's a minimal (german) testcase. Pasting the first line results in:

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ao ̈
 ̈ ̈uß
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Comment 9 Michael Monreal 2009-12-03 21:48:05 UTC 
Created attachment 149044 [details]
testcase source

And this is the source .tex file... I used pdflatex to render the .pdf file.
Comment 10 Michael Monreal 2010-01-25 17:03:00 UTC 
Can anyone reproduce the problem with the pdf I attached?
Comment 11 Alexander Kojevnikov 2010-01-25 22:37:11 UTC 
I certainly can.
Comment 12 Urmas 2011-06-27 07:25:42 UTC 
Anyone working on it?
Comment 13 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2013-07-04 03:15:37 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, this problem is in
poppler.  You can follow the bug report in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66569

For more information, see
https://live.gnome.org/Evince/PopplerBugs#poppler