Bug#502399: diarhesis characters make selection of words impossible

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> [2008.10.16.1136 +0200]:
> This looks like a TeX document generated using the ae fonts. In which
> case, this behavior is expected, since these fonts emulate the
> characters by superposing the accents and umlauts to the ASCII
> characters.

I definitely do not use the ae fonts. The font is
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb.

The input file is attached. I use pdflatex:

piper:~|master|.tmp/cdt.SLoqmUAo% pdflatex test.tex                                              #10029
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for american, polish, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/home/madduck/.texmf/tex/latex/utf8.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu))) (./test.aux) [1{/var/lib
/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) )</usr/share/texmf-tex
live/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 10495 bytes).

> This should not happen if you use the lmodern or cm-super fonts.

Confirmed.

Anyway, even though there may be better fonts I can use, that does
not justify the broken text selection behaviour of evince. xpdf sees
separate characters for the overlay, but it doesn't break so
spectacularly.

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