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Sergio Fernández commented on TIKA-469:
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one additional example:
http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/gtbr12_execsummary_ar.pdf
> The Parser is not correctly outputting Arabic text documents
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> Key: TIKA-469
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-469
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: parser
> Affects Versions: 0.7
> Environment: Windows XP
> Reporter: Robert Cullen
> Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--fever_factsheet_arabic.pdf,
> ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--TEST_WORD.doc
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> 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.
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