[PDFBOX-3347] COSName parsing doesn't handle ISO-8859-1 encoded bytes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.12, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.6, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Parsing, Writing
• Assignee: John Hewson
• Reporter: Maruan Sahyoun
• Created: 10/May/16 13:02
• Updated: 15/May/17 20:28
• Resolved: 05/May/17 16:01

Description

As discussed here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36964496/pdfbox-2-0-overcoming-dictionary-key-encoding/ a byte sequence making up a COSName is interpreted during parsing and writing where it shouldn't. Details are given my mkl's excellent analysis.