Bad characters in pdf

nick107 · Post by **nick107** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:04 pm

http://icscsearch.icsc.org/texis/search ... mit=Submit

On many of the pdfs on the site, the Summary and Match Info results of the pdf are coming back as a bunch of garbage charaters. Any ideas?

I searched through the forum but couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.

nick107 · Post by **nick107** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:35 pm

I also have all updates applied on the search appliance.

Post by **mark** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:55 pm

Looks like some issue with font/charset mapping. We're checking into it...

Post by **Kai** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:03 pm

We've found the issue; a fix (actually a workaround for lack of Unicode info in the PDF) should be available as an update sometime next week. Will let you know.

nick107 · Post by **nick107** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:09 pm

I am getting garbage characters again on the following search result:

http://icscsearch.icsc.org/texis/search ... &prox=page

It looks like strange characters are the periods on the index page in between the section title and the page number

Post by **John** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:25 pm

What do you have Display Charset set to? If in the browser I tell it to display UTF-8 it seems correct.

nick107 · Post by **nick107** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:03 pm

Both the display character and storage character set are set to blank, so it should be using UTF-8 right?

Post by **John** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:00 pm

Correct. That means in your look and feel you want to make sure you specify the charset as UTF-8 in the <head>, e.g.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

nick107 · Post by **nick107** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:36 pm

Thanks, that solved that issue.

nick107 · Post by **nick107** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:02 am

Ok, I am getting still getting some bad characters in search results, even with the charset set to UTF-8. On the following page:

http://icscsearch.icsc.org/texis/search ... review&cq=

the second and third result are good examples, among others.

Any ideas?