pdftotext does not handle "fi"
Siggy Brentrup
ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de
Mon Jul 13 07:30:19 UTC 2009
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 19:23 -0400, Justin Hale wrote:
> Hello I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu Linux for my old Sony
> Vaio and new Sony Vaio. When I try to convert a large pdf file to
> text I get the "fi" characters converted to one character instead of
> two and the displayed results are inconsistent.
'fi' as single character is a ligature; cf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
> Sometimes the character looks like "fi" and sometimes it looks like
> a diamond depending on whether or not I'm using GUI or the tty1,
> respectively. ~~ Justin
Note the box at the top right corner.
HTH
Siggy
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