Fwd: Re: Fwd: decomposed u umlaut

Fwd: Re: Fwd: decomposed u umlaut

[Hans Hagen]

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Subject: Re: Fwd: [NTG-context] decomposed u umlaut
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:58:00 +0100
From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>

On 3/22/2018 9:36 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
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> From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
> Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:42 AM
> Subject: [NTG-context] decomposed u umlaut
> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
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> 
> 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
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