Re: [pdf-devel] Proposal of API for the Encoded Text module

[Aleksander Morgado]

> PDF Names have been able to be encoded in host encodings, but by doing
> so you can NOT expect them to work correctly.  For example, some
> producers tried to encode Japanese font names in SJIS, which could be
> done (using the #-escape mechanism) but wouldn't be processed by a
> conforming reader.
>
> ISO 32000 (the ISO version of PDF 1.7) does not provide compliance for
> anything other than PDDoc and UTF8.
>
> Leonard

That's perfect, thank you for your clarification!