[pdftex] Re: Degree Celsius

[Alan Shutko]

Y&Y Support <support at YandY.com> writes:

> Yet another alternative is some package like AE or ZE that hacks
> together accented characters using virtual fonts -- but then you
> can't do text search or copy and paste properly from the PDF file.

Could you elaborate on that?

I've made a doc with ae and I can do a decent job of cut and paste,
except umlauted characters come out like "¨ o".  Is this what you were
referring to, or is it even worse in older versions of Acrobat?

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