Special characters not properly replaced about pdfform.js HOT 7 CLOSED

Thank you for the report. I can reproduce the problem with ≤ and will look into it. Of course, you are very welcome to contribute a patch.

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XFA seems unaffected, it's only a problem with AcroForms (i.e.: to reproduce, test with okular, evince, Chrome etc. , not Adobe Reader).

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With the new release 1.0.3, ≤ and other characters should be encoded correctly. However, it seems that okular - at least on my system - has trouble generating the appearances. If you click into the text input, however, everything works fine for me.

Can you confirm?

As always, patches (e.g. for appearance generation) welcome!

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Thanks @phihag for the fix !
I just updated the pdf_js version but got an error when using it

wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phihag/pdfform.js/dist/dist/pdfform.pdf_js.dist.js'

I got this in the browser console

TypeError: minipdf_lib.isNull is not a function

Is that related to the release of dist ?
I have no time right now to dig about the okular rendering but I'll try to get some time to do it.

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Oh, I apologize. Should be fixed now.

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Hi @phihag,
Thanks for the fix abou isNull.
I also tried to generate a PDF file with ≤.
It worked on Acrobat Reader but on Chrome it generate a space instead (with pdf js).

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I can reproduce this, but that seems to be a Chrome bug: I cannot manually input ≤ in an empty form with Chrome either. Can you?

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