FS#47542 - poppler-data should be a proper dependency of poppler.
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Opened by deleted account (crocket) - Sunday, 27 December 2015, 08:08 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 27 December 2015, 14:49 GMT
Opened by deleted account (crocket) - Sunday, 27 December 2015, 08:08 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 27 December 2015, 14:49 GMT
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Description: A while ago, I installed okular and tried to
view a PDF file in
korean. I could not see any korean letter in okular. I installed evince, but evince couldn't display korean letters, either. But, google chrome could display korean letters in PDF. I didn't know what was going on. After about half an hour of googling and thinking, a package called poppler-data somehow caught my eyes, so I installed it. Then, I could read korean PDF files. It turned out that poppler-data was an optional dependency of poppler. Since I installed okular with a command "pacman -Syu kdegraphics-okular", hundreds of packages buried the output of okular installation, and I couldn't have thought an optional package was going to cause a font problem. After careful inspection, I found that poppler-data was an optional dependency of poppler with a description saying "encoding data to display PDF documents containing CJK characters". I have used various linux distributions for 7 years, and if it took half an hour for me, it could take a few hours for relatively inexperienced people. There are billions of asians whose languages are CJK, and millions of foreigners may read and write CJK regularly or occasionally. CJK support should not be optional in softwares including okular and evince. I propose that poppler-data should become a proper dependency of poppler. |
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