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John Hewson commented on PDFBOX-2384:
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There's a related bug too. The constructor PDFTextStripper(String encoding)
allows an encoding to be specified, which is pretty strange because the value
returned from PDFTextStripper#getText() is a String which in Java is always
UTF-16. The only method to make use of this "encoding" is
TextNormalize#normalizeDiacritic() which checks if it begins with "UTF" and if
so, performs an NFKC normalization - but the input and output to
normalizeDiacritic are String objects, which are always UTF-16!
> ExtractText should default to UTF-8
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> Key: PDFBOX-2384
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2384
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Utilities
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: John Hewson
> Priority: Minor
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> ExtractText (and perhaps also PDFTextStripper) should default to UTF-8, which
> is what most people expect. There have been two long-standing open issues
> PDFBOX-755, PDFBOX-970, because of not using having a good default.
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