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  1. Bug #1288182
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 1288182

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In , Oliver-joos-freenet (oliver-joos-freenet) wrote :

I confirm this bug (or missing feature).

It not only affects Arabic or Hebrew characters! I tried to insert a "line
separator" (Unicode character '\u2028') into a text field of a PDF form. In
Gnome (e.g. in a Terminal) this works by pressing Ctrl+Shift+u 2 0 2 8. In
acroread it works similar (just keep pressing Ctrl+Shift while typing the
digits). Evince displays a PDF form with '\u2028' as expected. But a '\u2028'
cannot be inserted and is even removed whenever the containing text field is
edited somehow!

For details about why and how PDF forms may contain '\u2028' or '\u2029' see
http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2009/01/paragraph_breaks_in_plain_text.html

( This is a copy of my comment https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627024#c4 )