1023808 - German umlauts in hyperlinks are not displayed correctly.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1122280

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P3)

Description

[Manfred Kellermann]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140605174243

Steps to reproduce:

Create an Excel-File with hyperlinks which have some german umlauts. Then export it to PDF.


Actual results:

German umlauts in hyperlinks are not displayed correctly.

In Adobe reader and Chrome pdf-viewer it works fine.


Expected results:

The hyperlinks should work.

Comment 1

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop QA]

Could you please attach a pdf sample so it can be used as a testcase? Thank you!

Comment 2

[Fabian Lange]

Attachment: sample pdf showing the broken link

i can confirm this problem. text is fine but the url is already broken when it arrives in LinkAnnotation.
dict.get('A').get('URI') is already incorrect.

Comment 3

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop QA]

Thanks, Fabian!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Confirm using 20140806030201 Nightly 34.0a1, hovering the link in pdf and clicking on it goes to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/%C3%83%C2%BC%C3%83%C2%B6%C3%83%C2%A4

Comment 4

[Fabian Lange]

I assume the pdf is broken.
according to spec:
12.6.4.7 URI Actions:

URI: ASCII string (Required) The uniform resource identifier to resolve, encoded in 7-bit ASCII. 

however I can see that Excel encoded it in UTF-8
<</Type/Action/S/URI/URI(http://www.mozilla.org/üöä) >>

This is "üöä" in hex:
C3 BC C3 B6 C3 A4

Its clearly not 7-bit ASCII but UTF-8.
The question is if this could be handled better.