[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 87215] evince can not find ü in attached PDF

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87215

--- Comment #16 from Nelson Benitez <nbenitezl at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jason Crain from comment #14)
> (In reply to Nelson Benitez from comment #13)
> > Hi Jason, thank you very much for the patch, btw, today I was reading this
> > pdf:
> > 
> > http://www.compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss/course_materials/csci493.70/
> > lecture_notes/GTK_textview.pdf
> > 
> > and noticed that lot of words with double f,  like 'buffer', are not
> > found[1] when searching for it, also when copied to gedit it shows the
> > unicode not found glyph inplace of the 'ff' in the word.
> > 
> > So, is your patch covering this double f case? 
> 
> No, it does not fix that.  That file has a different problem and I don't see
> a way of fixing it.  The PDF creator would need to add some extra
> information before we could guess that character code 27 should be a double
> f.

Thanks Jason for explanation, indeed it was a problem in the PDF creator. Just
for completeness I'm posting link describing the problem and solution in
pdfTEX:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31113/enable-searching-in-a-pdflatex-generated-document 

Regards,

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