Re: [Xml-sg-cmt] Odd <u> display in PDF: Re: AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9290 <draft-ietf-core-problem-details-08> for your review

[Sandy Ginoza <[e-mail]>]

Hi Robert,

Will do - thanks for the update!

Sandy 

> On Aug 26, 2022, at 4:30 PM, Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Kesara was exploring a workaround before his NZ weekend started. Please wait until he's back online and can further investigate whether the workaround will succeed.
> 
> RjS
> 
> On 8/26/22 6:05 PM, Sandy Ginoza wrote:
>> Authors, CMT,
>> 
>> Carsten and Thomas approved publication pending "repairing the PDF glitch and the typo" where the "PDF glitch" is #873. 
>> Is there some escalation path or alternate fix for this, as it seems as though WeasyPrint won’t fix this (issue 1711 was closed as "not planned”).  Any thoughts on how to proceed? 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Sandy 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2022, at 1:55 PM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Megan,
>>> 
>>> I’m in the middle of my full reread (3 totally optional nits so far), but now I’m running into a major glitch with the PDF generation, which I found in the RFC-editor’s output and can reproduce when generating the PDF locally with both xml2rfc 3.13.1 and 3.14.1 [weasyprint-56.1]).
>>> 
>>> Correct in HTML:
>>> 
>>>> The following example shows how the Hebrew-language string "שלום" (HEBREW LETTER SHIN, HEBREW LETTER LAMED, HEBREW LETTER VAV, HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM, U+05E9 U+05DC U+05D5 U+05DD) is represented. Note the rtl direction expressed by setting the third element in the array to "true”.
>>> 
>>> Correct in TXT:
>>> 
>>>>   The following example shows how the Hebrew-language string "שלום"
>>>>   (HEBREW LETTER SHIN, HEBREW LETTER LAMED, HEBREW LETTER VAV, HEBREW
>>>>   LETTER FINAL MEM, U+05E9 U+05DC U+05D5 U+05DD) is represented.  Note
>>>>   the rtl direction expressed by setting the third element in the array
>>>>   to "true".
>>> 
>>> Glitch in PDF:
>>> 
>>>> The following example shows how the Hebrew-language string ,HEBREW LETTER SHIN) "􏰀􏰁􏰂שלום" HEBREW LETTER LAMED, HEBREW LETTER VAV, HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM, U+05E9 U+05DC U+05D5 U+05DD) is represented. Note the rtl direction expressed by setting the third element in the array to "true".
>>> 
>>> Please note that, after a copy-paste from PDF to text, I get the three private-use characters before the שלום.
>>> For comparison, poppler's pdftotext just finds a U+202B RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING before and a U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING after the hebrew text (including the terminating quote) both for the running text and the artwork example that follows.  
>>> 
>>> So if the latin text for (HEBREW LETTER SHIN, weren't surprisingly reordered in the PDF, all would be fine.
>>> 
>>> (I'd like to reconfirm that (except for the PDF glitch) the
>>> presentation of the example with שלום in Appendix A looks exactly like
>>> we intended -- a more beautiful rendering of the Unicode names and
>>> scalars would certainly be possible, but is outside the scope of what
>>> we want to achieve here.)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Grüße, Carsten
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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