Bug#699073: libpdf-api2-perl: ignores U+2002

[brian m. carlson]

Package: libpdf-api2-perl
Version: 2.019-1
Severity: normal

I have a program that processes lots of text into different formats,
including PDF.  For consistency and ease of use, I use U+2002 (EN SPACE)
to indent some text.  However, PDF::API2 seems to ignore these
completely: it is as if they were not present at all.

I have tried the generated PDF in evince and in Google Chrome's PDF
viewer, and in both cases no space is emitted.  U+2002 is a perfectly
valid Unicode character and should be emitted as a space equivalent to
half the point size.  If this requires special magic, PDF::API2 should
either handle it automatically, or die with an informative error
message.

I have attached a sample program which demonstrates the problem.  If I
change the U+2002 characters into U+2022 (BULLET) characters, they are
rendered correctly.  The text should be indented 60 points from the left
margin, but it is not.  U+2003 (EM SPACE) is similarly broken.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libpdf-api2-perl depends on:
ii  libfont-ttf-perl  1.02-1
ii  perl              5.14.2-16
ii  ttf-dejavu        2.33-3

libpdf-api2-perl recommends no packages.

libpdf-api2-perl suggests no packages.

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