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poppler package

  1. Bug #127732
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 127732

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In , Benjamin Geer (benjamin-geer) wrote :

> The problem in poppler is reverse-bidi. That is, going back from
> the visual order as found in the PDF to the logical text order.
> Poppler does an ok job at that.

If I want to search for the string
لقد
in a PDF using evince, I have to type it backwards in the search field:
دقل

This is completely broken behaviour. How can it be considered doing "an OK job"?