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Links with non-ASCII characters do not work
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To reproduce, go to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswettbewerb_Mathematik and download it as PDF file (using the new rdf2latex writer). Open the created PDF file (I only have an Adobe Reader 10.1.2 to test) and hover over the links. Those with only ASCII characters are as expected (e.g. "Mathematikwettbewerb" links to "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematikwettbewerb"), but those with non-ASCII characters aren't, e.g. "Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft" links to "file:///E|/þÿ" (this link seems to be relative to the PDF file). I also tested a random article from el.wikipedia, and all the links were messed up.

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bz71547

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 3:56 AM
• bzimport added projects: OCG-PDF-renderer, I18n.
• bzimport set Reference to bz71547.
Schnark created this task.Oct 2 2014, 7:42 AM
Schnark added a comment.Oct 2 2014, 7:49 AM

Hm, seems to be an issue with Adobe Reader, the first online PDF-to-HTML-converter I could find, handled the links correctly. Anyway, Adobe Reader should be important enough to make the PDF files compatible to it.

Aklapper added a comment.Oct 2 2014, 8:51 AM

I can confirm the problem with evince/poppler on Linux. When clicking such a link I get:

Error when getting information for file '/var/tmp/��': No such file or directory

Aklapper added a comment.Oct 3 2014, 10:02 AM
  • Bug 71589 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Schnark added a comment.Oct 10 2014, 7:26 AM

That þÿ at the start of the link seems to be a Byte Order Mark encoded as UTF-16 BE, but interpreted as ISO/IEC 8859-1.

gerritbot added a comment.Oct 10 2014, 8:05 AM

Change 165983 had a related patch set uploaded by Cscott:
PDF can't handle UTF-8 URLs.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165983

gerritbot added a comment.Oct 21 2014, 4:20 PM

Change 165983 merged by jenkins-bot:
PDF can't handle UTF-8 URLs.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165983

cscott added a comment.Oct 21 2014, 8:44 PM

Fix merged and deployed.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: OCG-PDFRenderer.Apr 8 2016, 2:50 PM
Jdforrester-WMF removed a project: OCG-PDF-renderer.
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