Bug#694067: ghostscript: Encoding of pdf metadata does not comply with PDF standard (was: lilypond: Umlauts incorrectly exported to PDF meta data)
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 23.11.2012, 15:11 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> > Package: lilypond
> > Version: 2.14.2-3
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: upstream
>
> Dear Debian folks,
>
>
> [ … LilyPond bug report … ]
>
> thanks to the awesome responsiveness of the LilyPond folks [1], a bug in
> Ghostscript was found and upstream Ghostscript developers fixed this in
> no time [2]!
>
> It would be great if the commit
>
> a3d00daf5f9abb1209cb750a95e23bc6951c1c63
> pdfwrite - convert non-UTF-16BE doc info to UTF-8 assuming PDFDocEncoding
>
> could be backported as otherwise data could be lost due to the
> incorrectly encoded characters.
Thanks for tracking this down!
Don Armstrong
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