From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 03:04:45 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:   
   > It's because the authors (or their software) used a code point for the   
   > "ff" ligature and xpdf insists that you search for that datum, unwilling   
   > to accommodate the fact that no one types "ff" ligature into a search   
   > pane.   
      
   > Yes, I see that there's stuff in the man pages about text encoding. Is   
   > it worth hours of my time to figure out a lot of stuff about unicode   
   > mapping?  I don't see anything about how that would affect search.   
      
   > I think I have to find some other way to deal with PDF files.   
      
   Unicode is a mess in so many ways... But is there really any pdf reader   
   out there capable of successfully do a search like that? Would Acrobat   
   Reader do it better?   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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