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#887 "Notes" field on invoices not propery escaped in PDFLaTeX
When generating a PDF of an invoice, the "Notes" field does not properly escape all characters.
I have hit this with a variety of characters, and don't have a full list. The ones that seemed to trigger a problem today are "[" or "]".
For 1.4, I think most of our problems would be solved by using Tex::Encode.
We might want to consider this for 1.3 as well but should consider the issues regarding adding dependencies in a stable branch (given that this certainly affects all prior versions, I am thinking it should be fixed in 1.4 only)
Also note that Tex::Encode handles UTF-8 for Latin-like languages (meaning that XeTeX becomes necessary only for things with fundamentally different character sets which cannot be managed as LaTeX ligatures).
hmm thinking... Wondering if it would be worth auto-discovering Tex::Encode and using it if it exists for 1.3 If so, should certainly put that change in early in the release cycle.
LaTeX::Encode in its current version does not work. I have sent a patch to the author.
svn 6489