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bug #32903: Unicode characters cannot be copied properly from generated pdf

Submitter:  शंतनू <shantanoo>
Submitted:  Fri 25 Mar 2011 08:19:13 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Fri 25 Mar 2011 08:19:13 AM UTC, original submission:  

Modified the rst.txt available in samples/rst2pdf directory.

$ git diff
diff --git a/samples/rest2pdf/rst.txt b/samples/rest2pdf/rst.txt
index 8ffe74d..cae3175 100644
--- a/samples/rest2pdf/rst.txt
+++ b/samples/rest2pdf/rst.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ReStructuredText (rst): plain text markup
 
 .. sectnum::
 
-.. contents:: The tiny table of contents
+.. contents:: The tiny table of contents (प्रयत्न)
 
 What is reStructuredText?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Generated pdf using rest2pdf.py. Data is properly displayed in generated pdf (using acrocread, xpdf, preview.app). But on selecting the text from .pdf and copying it, get following

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