[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (PDFBOX-945) PDFBOX may not depend on plattform encoding

["Martin Koegler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Martin Koegler edited comment on PDFBOX-945 at 1/23/11 12:38 PM:
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Patch 01:

Convert  initialiser strings to a byte array using ISO-8859-1.

A helper class is introduced, as getBytes with an encoding my throw UnsupportedEncodingException, which is not allowed for initialiser.

      was (Author: e9925248):
    Convert  initialiser strings to a byte array using ISO-8859-1.

A helper class is introduced, as getBytes with an encoding my throw UnsupportedEncodingException, which is not allowed for initialiser.
  
> PDFBOX may not depend on plattform encoding
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-945
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-945
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.0
>            Reporter: Martin Koegler
>         Attachments: 01-static-init-encoding.patch, 02-encoding.patch
>
>
> The pdf specification states, that PDFs use an ASCII compatible, 8 bit characterset.
> PDFBOX uses on various places the plattform encoding to convert bytes from/to strings.
> On JREs with an non ASCII compatible plattform encoding (there are such systems out there), this will break pdfbox.

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