Created attachment 25963 [details]
test case

Test case with some polish characters

Created attachment 25964 [details]
patch to utf-8

Changes the encoding to UTF-8

See patch

Hi,

Thanks for your patch. This bug should remain open until it has actually been committed. Otherwise we will loose track of it.

Vincent

(In reply to comment #3)
> See patch

A brief look at this patch shows that it simply changes the output encoding used for the PDFDocument.encode() function as follows:

-    public static final String ENCODING = "ISO-8859-1";
+    public static final String ENCODING = "UTF-8";

I believe this is incorrect. PDF files employ three string types:

(1) byte string (unspecified encoding)
(2) ascii string (us-ascii encoding)
(3) text string (either PDFDocEncoding or UTF-16BE)

Since (1) the encode() mechanism is used in a variety of contexts and (2) no explicit use of UTF-8 is made by PDF, it would be incorrect to simply change the output encoding returned by encode().

See ISO/IEC 32000 (2008), Section 7.9.2 for details.

This patch needs to be reworked to take these details into account. Furthermore, the description of this bug is not adequate: it really doesn't explain what the problem is:

* is it the fact that the rendered text of the content of basic-link is not rendered with Polish characters? if so, then the problem is a font selection problem, not a character encoding problem

* is it related to the character encoding used in the /Filespec dictionary for the link annotation?

In any case, the present patch MUST NOT be applied.

see comment 5

resetting P2 open bugs to P3 pending further review

(In reply to comment #6)
> see comment 5

Max, I am still awaiting your input as requested above. if I see no further input by April 30, I will close this bug due to lack of requested information. Regards, Glenn