Bug#461167: libpdf-api2-perl: $pdf->info() metadata improperly handles Unicode strings

[Damyan Ivanov]

forwarded 461167 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=32373
thanks

-=| Chris Adams, Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:31:50PM -0800 |=-
> PDF::API2 includes Encode but doesn't use it when checking for UTF-16
> strings in metadata ($pdf->info() hash). This causes the output to be
> garbled in our UTF-8 (perl -CSD) environment. The attached patch uses
> Encode::detect to decode UTF-16BE/LE strings; it might be useful to
> simply Encode::Guess the values but this approach is more conservative.

Thanks for the patch.

I've forwarded it upstream for comments. Hopefuly they won't object.

An adapted patch to the current upstream version (0.68) is in our
Subversion repository.

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