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Lars Hellström <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:28:47 +0200
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Heiko Oberdiek skrev 2011-10-12 11.39:
> In the context of bookmarks and other PDF strings "Unicode"
> means UTF-16 (hyperref uses BE, but there is a byte order mark).

At least version 1.5 of the PDF standard *requires* it to be UTF-16BE; the 
byte order mark is really there to signal that this is not PDFDocEncoding: 
"For text strings encoded in Unicode, the first two bytes must be 254 
followed by 255."

Lars Hellström

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