[poppler] pdftotext needs support for surrogates outside the BMP plane

[Koji Otani]

Thank you.

I could view the text file with Unicode Symbol font.

> Albert
 Could you conform the patch with these information ?
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Koji Otani.


From: Ross Moore <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [poppler] pdftotext needs support for surrogates outside the BMP plane
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:53:54 +1000
Message-ID: <308EB069-DD16-407F-B467-5B5F524F9887 at maths.mq.edu.au>

ross> Hi Koji,
ross> 
ross> On 02/06/2008, at 1:50 PM, Koji Otani wrote:
ross> >
ross> >
ross> > From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
ross> > Subject: Re: [poppler] pdftotext needs support for surrogates  
ross> > outside the BMP plane
ross> > Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:28:11 +0200
ross> > Message-ID: <200806011728.11948.aacid at kde.org>
ross> >
ross> > aacid> A Dijous 29 Maig 2008, Koji Otani va escriure:
ross> > aacid> > Hi, All.
ross> > aacid> >
ross> > aacid> > I'd like to commit this patch to the trunk tree.
ross> > aacid> > Should I register this to Bugzilla before doing it?
ross> > aacid>
ross> > aacid> No, but i'd like to confirm that "it works" before commiting  
ross> > it, i can see
ross> > aacid> that your patch gives a different output but i don't have  
ross> > any font installed
ross> > aacid> in my system that can "draw" the characters, what font are  
ross> > you using?
ross> > aacid>
ross> > aacid> Albert
ross> > aacid>
ross> >
ross> > Output is a UTF-8 text file. I don't have fonts that can draw this  
ross> > text
ross> > file too. I checked if it is correct with a hexdump application.
ross> >
ross> > This problem was reported by Dr. Ross Moore. He viewed it with Mac
ross> > text editor. but I can't view it with my Mac text-editor.
ross> >
ross> >> Dr. Ross Moore
ross> >  What font are you using?
ross> 
ross> I have several which can show these glyphs.
ross> 
ross> In TextEdit, the default font that is being used is "Unicode Symbols",
ross> as shown in one of the attached screenshots.
ross> Get it from      http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ .
ross> 
ross> The other screenshot shows which fonts I have installed
ross> that support Plane 1 characters.
ross> 
ross> 
ross> Other possibilities are  Code200/Code2001/Code2002
ross> e.g., from  http://www.code2000.net/code2001.htm .
ross> 
ross> The STIX fonts are scheduled for release soon:
ross>      http://www.stixfonts.org/rel_sched.html
ross> (The beta testing release is no longer available.)
ross> 
ross> Other free fonts are also available; e.g. Asana Math
ross>    http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/asyropoulos/219 .
ross> 
ross> Or if you are prepared to try Microsoft's  "Cambria Math",
ross> then that should work.
ross>