[poppler] Chinese characters broken

JustFillBug mozbugbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Aug 24 06:53:55 PDT 2010


On 2010-08-24, mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:27:46 +0900
> mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote:
>>	/BaseFont	/LNQGRD+#b7s#b2#d3#a9#fa#c5#e9-WinCharSetFFFF-H
>
> The fontname is Big5 encoding for "新細明體",
> This is Chinese family name for PMingLiU.
> PMingLiU is blacklisted by FreeType2.
> Maybe it is reasonable proposal to add non-ASCII
> family names to the blacklist function in FreeType2.
>
> # BTW, in PMingLiU font file, this localized family
> # name is coded by Unicode, not Big5. Maybe PDF
> # generator reencode Big5 font name for the font
> # designed for Traditional Chinese.
>

Or the blacklist should also be loaded from some on disk text files, such
that whenever a user encounter the problem, he does not have to wait for
a new release of freetype with updated blacklist. Just write the bad
font name to the text file.




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