extra space added when copying
Submitted by Scott Kostyshak
Link to original bug (#738747)
Description
I've reproduced the following with Evince versions 3.10.3 and 3.14.1.
In the attached example, if you select "non-Arab" and copy, then paste somewhere, it will be pasted as "non- Arab". I thought this bug might be related to Bug 696030 but contrary to point 1 of there, here if in Evince you search for "non-Arab", it is found.
The extra space is not included with Okular or with pdftotext.
I see the same behavior as Evince in Zathura version 2.6 and Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939 does not show an extra space but if you move over it with the cursor there is a sort of hidden character.
(skip if you are not interested in speculation). It seems that there is a weird character after the dash that some programs ignore (Okular, pdftotext), some programs do not render but include as an invisible character (Inkscape), and other programs choose to convert to a space (Evince, Zathura).
I do not know how the document was created and I do not have permission to reproduce the document in whole.
Version: 3.14.x