Bug#451799: new evince cannot display Japanese characters correctly

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:13:09PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le samedi 01 décembre 2007 à 02:11 -0300, Martín Ferrari a écrit :
> > On Nov 27, 2007 3:56 PM, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > The new poppler version needs some specific files that contain some
> > > mappings between Unicode and other encodings, which are in a separate
> > > package.
> > 
> > That's all that it contains? can't that be reproduced with data from
> > iconv or similar?
> 
> Files in the unicodeMap directory could certainly be generated
> automatically, since they map Unicode to some other standard and
> widespread encodings (KOI8-R, EUC-JP…)
> 
> However, for other files, I don’t think iconv knows these encodings:
> Adobe-CNS1, Adobe-GB1, Adobe-Japan1 and Adobe-Korean1.

Note we have cmap-adobe-* packages in non-free, that contain CMaps for
these.

Mike