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Re:Firefox 1.0 New York Times Ad by matsemann on Sunday August 27, 2023 @05:01AM (#37280796)
Why are some of the names underlined?

And why do I only get � when I try to copy names in that PDF? It's like it's not real text, makes it impossible to search for names I think should be there.

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Re:Firefox 1.0 New York Times Ad by layer8 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:28AM (#37281274)
PDFs can use any custom character encoding they like. By default, there doesn’t need to be a mapping to Unicode or whatever.
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Re:Firefox 1.0 New York Times Ad by berkes on Sunday August 27, 2023 @08:49AM (#37282201)
Maybe "not being able to search" is a deliberate choice? I'm in there, I think. I won't mind showing up that much. Firefox is still OK. But I like how they don't presume I still want to show up there.
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Re:Firefox 1.0 New York Times Ad by asadotzler on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:25AM (#37283563)
This was one of my projects. The underlined names were people who got 10 other people to donate, sort of the super-donors.
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Re:Firefox 1.0 New York Times Ad by matsemann on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:18PM (#37284083)
Cool, thanks!
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Re:Firefox 1.0 New York Times Ad by chrisrhee on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:43PM (#37286459)
If you're searching for a name, it looks like they're mostly in alphabetical order by surname.
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