How to enable utf-8 in xpdf outline pane and search

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Published on 2010-01-01T16:28:05Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 15:21 UTC
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Xpdf version 3.02 downloaded from the Ubuntu repositories and run on Ubuntu 8.04.3 replaces greek utf-8 characters with blank characters in

the outline pane, i.e. the bookmark pane, and in
the search window. In particular, it is impossible to search for greek words in documents.

Is there a way to enable utf-8 support in xpdf so that 1. and 2. above work properly? Thanks!

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