[PDFBOX-2109] CFFParser uses String constructor without encoding

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.6, 2.0.0
• Component/s: FontBox
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Petr Slaby
• Created: 03/Jun/14 10:06
• Updated: 22/Jun/14 14:34
• Resolved: 04/Jun/14 10:17

Description

The string constructor called in CFFParser#readTagName() should specify an encoding, probably "ISO-8859-1", otherwise it will not work on systems where the default encoding is something "exotic" (we have some with EBCDIC, but I never tried to run PDFBox there). Patch attached.