[poppler] getText() broken?

[Frank Meerkötter]

Frank Meerkötter wrote:

> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>
>> Well, the getText Qt binding is not as good as it can be, trust me, i 
>> made it :-D
>>
>> Don't know about hyphens, dashes, etc, but about ligatures the 
>> problem is probably that they are not two characters but a "strange" 
>> character that represents the ligature itself so the translations is 
>> not easy (if possible) to do, maybe the dashes/etc have the same 
>> problem.
>
[..]

>
> thanks for your reply. I will have a look at the gnome bindings. Let's 
> see how they do it...
>

The problem was not within the Qt-Bindings. There was no problem at all. 
I used
something like
    qWarning("%s", str.ascii());
to check what text i've copied from a document.

When using
    qWarning("%s", str.unicode());
all text is printed to stderr.

I was confused by the fact that QString::ascii() produces a string
spiked with null bytes when containing non-ascii chars.

Regards,
   Frank