The reason is that all the strings in the info directory are written in
UTF-16, which is OK for all the keys but for ModDate and CreationDate,
which need to be in ASCII.
Until the sixth edition of the PDF reference book, it was unclear if this
was accepted. (The text says that CreationDate and Mod
Package: pdftk
Version: 1.40-2
Severity: important
[Severity set to important as pdftk generates corrupt data.]
On some PDF files, when I use pdftk, the CreationDate and ModDate
fields get corrupt. For instance, with the attached pdftk-test.pdf
file:
$ pdftk pdftk-test.pdf dump_data | \
pdftk
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