[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 92597] Fix showing of some non-ASCII characters in forms

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92597

--- Comment #11 from Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Kamil Páral from comment #10)
> Thanks, Marek. Is there some chance of having this "fixed" (i.e. worked
> around the same way Adobe Reader does it - by taking a system font and
> attaching it to the pdf document) in a foreseeable future? Because currently
> most of government- or bussiness-related pdf forms (in my country) can't be
> filled out on Linux, the only way is to run Windows and Adobe Reader. And
> that's a strong reason for people to say they can't use Linux, which makes
> me sad. I understand those pdf forms are not well created, they should have
> contained the correct font covering all needed glyphs. But I can complain as
> much as I want to the form authors (I did, many times) - as long as it works
> for 99% of people, they're not going to waste their time on this.

I would like to work on this but I don't have time for it now. If I'll find
some time for it (or time of my colleagues) I'll look at it but I can not
promise anything.

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