Re: Unicode PDF titles garbled

[Colin Campbell]

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 14:25 +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, um 06:28:42 schrieb Jay Anderson:
> > An example:
> > 
> > \version "2.13.48"
> > \header
> > {
> >   title = "Non Lo Farò Più"
> >   composer = "Johann Baptist Strauß"
> > }
> > 
> > When viewing the pdf the title shows as "Non Lo Farò Più". I've only
> > tested this with Evince and Okular. In searching about the problem
> > people suggest that the text encoding should be utf-16be and include
> > the BOM
> 
> Thanks for spotting that bug (Bug squad, can you please open a bug report for 
> this!). 
> 
> It's actually simpler than using utf-16be. All that is needed is to use 
> escape 
> sequences instead of the accented characters. E.g. I would need to use "\362" 
> instead of "ò". 
> 
> Unfortunately, I haven't found a scheme/guile method to create those escape 
> sequences from a utf8 string (I don't even know exactly which escape 
> sequences 
> these are! At least they are none of the usual utf8 representations).
> 
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
> 

Added as issue #1502, Reinhold.  I've guessed at priority-high.

Colin Campbell
Bug Squad
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