2011/11/2 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > > > Zdenek Wagner wrote: >> >> 2011/11/2 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)<p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > >> Adobe _does_ live in such era because tha last really portable reader >> for all operating systems is version 3. Bugs reported by me in January >> 2002 and April 2002 have not been fixed so far. >> >> PDF is based on PS and the string type requires 8bit characters. >> Making such a dramatic change in the very hard of the format will make >> old PDF's unreadable by new PDF readers. > > Don't follow that, Zdenek : the older PDFs will not change, > will still contain US ASCII strings and so on, but a newer > reader would be able to handle UTF-<whatever> strings as > well -- that was my thinking. > No, it won't be that easy. Syntax (string) in links is in AdobeStandardEncoding and some of these characters are not valid in UTF-8.
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