EVINCE, KPDF, ePDFviewer, and KGhostView cannot display any Japanese characters in PDF documents, when XPDF (with the xpdf-japanese plugin) can do it.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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poppler (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evince
EVINCE, KPDF, ePDFviewer, and KGhostView cannot display any Japanese characters in some PDF documents (like the one I attached with this post), when XPDF (with the xpdf-japanese plugin) can do it.
CONFIG:
I have Ubuntu 7.10 and Evince 2.20.1-0ubuntu1.
language-
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 1 14:16:34 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: evince file://
ProcCwd: /home/yyy
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux yyy-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Changed in evince: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in poppler: | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
I can confirm this. I am using kpdf and when opening files such as the one above, it just displays garbage. Maybe it is an encoding problem, but since there is no way to set the encoding in kpdf, I am stuck.