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Why PDF converters mangle Cyrillic (and how to pick one that doesn't)

If you work with Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian or any Cyrillic-language documents, you know the special failure: the layout survives perfectly, and the text inside reads as squares, mojibake, or…

  • PDF converters often mangle Cyrillic text due to encoding issues
  • Good converters reconstruct character encoding tables, bad ones assume Western encoding
  • Test converters with Cyrillic/Latin mixed text and tables to verify integrity

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