Evince/Okular displays incorrect characters
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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poppler (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When using evince/okular to display a PDF file, all degree signs (°) are rendered as a character that looks like ϒ, but selecting it and copying the relevant text, copying, and pasting into another application yields the correct character. Also, mu (μ) is rendered as the proportional to symbol, ∝, but copies correctly as well. The same for the square root symbol, √, except it appears as a small script p, ℘. I would assume the problem is not limited to these characters.
Steps to repeat:
1. Download and open http://
What happens:
'√Hz' and 'μV/°C' are displayed incorrectly, 'μV/°C' becoming '∝V/ϒC' and '√Hz' becoming '℘Hz'.
What should happen:
'√Hz' and 'μV/°C' are displayed as '√Hz' and 'μV/°C'
uname -a: Linux alexforencich-eee 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
evince: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
libpoppler[
okular: 4:4.3.5-
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 6 14:55:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
This seems to have been fixed in the latest package versions in Lucid 10.04.
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686
poppler 0.12.3-0ubuntu1
Packages: evince 2.29.5-0ubuntu1
Are you able to test with a Lucid 10.04 alpha 2 LiveCD and confirm? Note that after booting from the CD you will need to update the 3 poppler packages to the latest version.