[PDFBOX-5358] Add support for UTF-8 in strings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Labels: PDF2.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 06/Jan/22 14:25
• Updated: 19/Apr/22 05:29

Description

Peter Wyatt recently published an article on UTF-8 strings in PDF 2.0: https://www.pdfa.org/understanding-utf-8-in-pdf-2-0/

The article includes a link to a test file he created: https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf20examples/blob/master/pdf20-utf8-test.pdf 

Our debugger shows that we may need to add support for this (see attached).  This was with PDFBox 2.0.25.  I didn't have a chance to test with 3.x or the 2.x snapshot.

I don't think we're necessarily covering all the changes yet in PDF 2.0, but I thought I'd open this issue for at least discussion.