Re: [Dev-luatex] Unicode in \pdfinfo

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:06:03AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

Khaled Hosny writes:

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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:49:07PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Khaled Hosny wrote:

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\pdfinfo doesn't seem to support Unicode, when I compile the attached example with luatex I get symbols like هصة instead of the proper (Arabic) Unicode strings. Shouldn't luatex default to Unicode here too?

this is a backend c.q macro package issue ... (btw this can also be done in pdftex, but i never came to enabling the code in context because there was nothign to test)

I suspected that, since hyperrref with latex does this, but I found that xetex supports Unicode pdfinfo directly and thought luatex should do this too.

Yes, hyperref with LaTeX does this, but I recommend looking at _how_ it does this. It is another case of "code nobody but Heiko would come up with and very few people would be able to maintain".

I actually looked before posting here, but I'm yet to understand all this TeX's black magic. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team