On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:43:56AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Given the attached PDF file, it's impossible with evince to select > single words for copying, which seems to be due to the diarhesis > characters.
This is fixed in more recent versions of poppler. There are probably several commits that improved this, but the latest one is commit 040b316f0cb1ac933dce616fabe24c93f96fe1cd in poppler 0.33.0.
