[TIKA-469] The Parser is not correctly outputting Arabic text documents

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.7
• Component/s: parser

Environment

Windows XP

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Cullen
• Created: 22/Jul/10 14:51
• Updated: 24/Apr/13 16:03

Description

The parser is not preserving the character encoding when parsing documents in Arabic UTF-8, specifically with .pdf and .doc. The resulting character output is undechipherable or just question-mark symbols.