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    Aug 27, 2019 2 minutes

    Copied links are broken

    Q When I copy an Internet link containing accented characters from a PDF using Preview, why does it always break, but copies correctly when the document is opened in Acrobat Reader?

    by NICO VAN ROSSUM

    This is a strange problem which results from an unfortunate coincidence of features in Unicode, PDF and macOS. In Unicode text encoding, most accented characters (and others

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