bug#58532: 29.0.50; Support displaying imenu entries in a separate buffer

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:35:19 +0100 "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 19 2022, Juri Linkov wrote:
>
>>> It'd be great if imenu supported displaying its alist of entries in a
>>> separate buffer.  This is particularly useful when the list of entries
>>> has many levels (for example, it is the table of contents of a PDF,
>>
>> Unfortunately, mupdf/mutool doesn't support Unicode characters:
>> https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702358
>> Maybe doc-view--pdf-outline could post-process the output
>> to replace hex-encoded numbers with their character equivalents?
>
> i wasn't aware of this mutool limitation when i wrote that function; if
> the encoding is good enough, yes, we could do that: i'll send a patch,
> unless someone already did.  hmmm, do somebody have a good example of a
> PDF with lots of unicode in its section titles?

That bug is marked as fixed since 2020-05-07.  And indeed, using
mupdf-1.19.0, when I execute the recipe given in the bug report
non-ASCII UTF-8 encoded characters are correctly displayed.

Steve Berman