[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: Fwd: decomposed u umlaut

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Fwd: [NTG-context] decomposed u umlaut Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:58:00 +0100 From: Hans Hagen To: luigi scarso On 3/22/2018 9:36 AM, luigi scarso wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henning Hraban Ramm Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:42 AM Subject: [NTG-context] decomposed u umlaut To: mailing list for ConTeXt users

Ahoi,

I’ve one annoying problem with ConTeXt: all üs (small u umlauts) seem to be encoded as decomposed unicode or something like that, at least every ü breaks into u + garbage if I copy some text from a ConTeXt PDF to an app that doesn’t really support Unicode. All other characters within Latin-1, including umlauts, are no problem, that’s why I think the problem might be in ConTeXt’s font handling.

it depends on (1) what the font does, some fonts decompose and overlay base and mark and some fonts don't have the right unicodes with the marks so then you're toast (2) only a few viewers support proper cut/paste (i only trust acrobat in that although mupdf based viewers seem to be ok too)

(Actually, this is about my invoice addresses that I copy from PDF to the German Post postage webshop. The site is quite new and I can’t understand how a big company can buy such crappy software. I already complained, there are more problems, but of course got only a template answer.)

Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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