#153546 xpdf: [missing feature] imperfect encoding supports

Package:
xpdf
Source:
xpdf
Description:
Motif-based PDF reader using the Poppler library
Submitter:
Dan Jacobson
Date:
2011-09-17 08:57:53 UTC
Severity:
minor
#153546#5
Date:
2002-07-19 07:42:26 UTC
From:
To:
Yes I can read pdf files in chinese, but when i hit "o" for open, or the
left mouse... it tries to show me a directory, but the chinese
filenames there are garbled ascii

by the way, i see this bug report that I have xpdf-chinese-traditional etc.
installed too.

#153546#8
Date:
2002-07-19 12:05:48 UTC
From:
To:
Forwarded bug report from Debian.

Regards,
Hamish
----- Forwarded message from Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> ----- Subject: Bug#153546: xpdf: "open filename" cant deal with chinese Reply-To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>, 153546@bugs.debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 153546 X-Debian-PR-Package: xpdf X-Debian-PR-Keywords: From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:42:26 +0800 Package: xpdf Version: 1.00-3 Severity: normal Yes I can read pdf files in chinese, but when i hit "o" for open, or the left mouse... it tries to show me a directory, but the chinese filenames there are garbled ascii by the way, i see this bug report that I have xpdf-chinese-traditional etc. installed too.
----- End forwarded message -----
#153546#15
Date:
2002-09-04 11:29:53 UTC
From:
To:
----- Forwarded message from "Derek B. Noonburg" <derekn@foolabs.com> -----

Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:33:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Derek B. Noonburg" <derekn@foolabs.com>
Subject: Re: [jidanni@dman.ddts.net: Bug#153546: xpdf: "open filename" cant
 deal with chinese]
To: hamish@cloud.net.au
cc: jidanni@dman.ddts.net

My own little toolkit (LTK) has lots of deficiencies - this is merely
one of them.  The next Xpdf release will be Motif-based, which should
fix this problem (or at least make it possible to fix it).

- Derek
----- End forwarded message -----
#153546#20
Date:
2003-10-22 12:46:10 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Dan,

In Debian bug#153546 (http://bugs.debian.org/153546 ) you reported that
xpdf 1.00 could not show filenames with Chinese characters correctly in
its "open" dialog.

Could you please check to see if this is still the case with Xpdf 2.02
or 2.03.



Thanks


Hamish

#153546#25
Date:
2003-10-29 00:11:45 UTC
From:
To:
Problem still there with names like

$ ls|head -2|qp-encode
921 =BE=5F=A8a=A4E=A4E=AEp=B1Y=B6=F2=A6a=B4=D3=A5=CD=B4=5F=A8|=BA=CA=B4=
=FA=BBP=B5=FB=A6=F4.pdf
GIS =B9=EF=BA=F4=AE=E6=B8=EA=AE=C6=A4=A7=B3B=B2z=A4=CE=AB=E1=B3B=B2z=A5=
\=AF=E0=A4=A7=B1=B4=B0Q.pdf

$ apt-cache policy xpdf
xpdf:
  Installed: 2.02pl1-1

By the way,
Error: Failed to open font: '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-6-*-*-*-*-*-big5-0'
Error: Couldn't find a font for the 'Adobe-CNS1' character collection
and the characters overlap, unless one steps up the magnification, for
one file I checked.

#153546#30
Date:
2003-10-29 08:46:41 UTC
From:
To:
Thanks. Could you test with the latest version though ie 2.03-1?

Can you send me that PDF file or one with a Chinese name so I have
something to test with?

OK I will look into that.


Thanks
Hamish

#153546#35
Date:
2003-10-30 02:21:26 UTC
From:
To:
H> Thanks. Could you test with the latest version though ie 2.03-1?

Need to get 1779kB of archives.
Have only modem, will wait for next apt-zip opportunity.

H> Can you send me that PDF file or one with a Chinese name so I have
H> something to test with?

Please try
$ echo =A4=A4=A4=E5.pdf|qp-decode|xargs touch

#153546#40
Date:
2010-07-18 14:30:19 UTC
From:
To:
retitle 153546 xpdf is not internationalized properly
severity 153546 important
found 153546 3.02-2
found 153546 3.02-9
tags 153546 confirmed
forcemerge 153546 227913 391381 422346 440867
thanks

Dan, this bug report is a valid one.

I will merge all related bugs to this one.

http://bugs.debian.org/440867 provides summay.

Basically, xpdf's local handling is messy.

#227913 [n|  |=] [xpdf] xpdf: Non-latin1 characters in find dialog
Reported by: Daniel Skarda <0rfelyus@ucw.cz>; Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Merged with 516782; Filed 6 years and 185 days ago;

#391381 [n|  |  ] [xpdf] filename dialog does not understand unicode
Reported by: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:33:32 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Filed 3 years and 286 days ago;

#422346 [n|  |  ] [xpdf] xpdf: utf-8 characters in pdf file name not correctly displayed in the window title bar
Reported by: berti <bertrand.haut@brutele.be>; Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 09:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Filed 3 years and 75 days ago;

#440867 [n|  |  ] [xpdf] xpdf: Default output encoding should be current locale's charset

#153546#43
Date:
2010-07-18 14:30:19 UTC
From:
To:
retitle 153546 xpdf is not internationalized properly
severity 153546 important
found 153546 3.02-2
found 153546 3.02-9
tags 153546 confirmed
forcemerge 153546 227913 391381 422346 440867
thanks

Dan, this bug report is a valid one.

I will merge all related bugs to this one.

http://bugs.debian.org/440867 provides summay.

Basically, xpdf's local handling is messy.

#227913 [n|  |=] [xpdf] xpdf: Non-latin1 characters in find dialog
Reported by: Daniel Skarda <0rfelyus@ucw.cz>; Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Merged with 516782; Filed 6 years and 185 days ago;

#391381 [n|  |  ] [xpdf] filename dialog does not understand unicode
Reported by: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:33:32 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Filed 3 years and 286 days ago;

#422346 [n|  |  ] [xpdf] xpdf: utf-8 characters in pdf file name not correctly displayed in the window title bar
Reported by: berti <bertrand.haut@brutele.be>; Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 09:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Filed 3 years and 75 days ago;

#440867 [n|  |  ] [xpdf] xpdf: Default output encoding should be current locale's charset