Evince seems not to use the utf-8 encoding in searches.
The latest version of Evince evince-43~alpha-4.fc37.x86_64
on Fedora seems not to be using utf-8
encoding in searches which limits the search possibilities in all languages that use non-ascii characters. The following examples are made on a Czech system.
Reproducer (you can see the illustration below):
- Open the search bar (Ctrl-F).
- Type řekla (meaning [she] said)
- Notice, that řekla has not been found and is indicated by red color.
- Notice, that if Julie is found instead, there is a occurence of řekla Julie (Julie said), however the leading character has not been correctly recognized and its representation in the search results is incorrect.
- In the text itself, all characters are correctly shown.
- When I copy the text using Ctrl-C, I am getting
øekla Julie
instead ofřekla Julie
.
I believe that the strings might not be treated as utf-8 in places lacking the correct characters. It would be nice if the application would be able to use correct encoding even in searches and copied out strings.