Follow-up Comment #15, bug #58206 (project groff): I misread the output--the problem file from the original submission indeed contains UTF-16LE, not surprising at all given all the Windows systems in the world.
And for those who were wondering, I've worked out a tempfile-free way to manipulate the within-build-tree gnu.eps file into an afflicted gnu.pdf that reproduces this problem. So I can get my regression test now. $ gs -o - -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -f build/gnu.eps -c "[ /Title (\000B\000U\000S\000T\000E\000D) /DOCINFO pdfmark" | pdfinfo - | xxd | head 00000000: 5469 746c 653a 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 Title: 00000010: 0042 0055 0053 0054 0045 0044 0a43 7265 .B.U.S.T.E.D.Cre 00000020: 6174 6f72 3a20 2020 2020 2020 2070 6e6d ator: pnm 00000030: 746f 7073 0a50 726f 6475 6365 723a 2020 tops.Producer: 00000040: 2020 2020 2047 504c 2047 686f 7374 7363 GPL Ghostsc 00000050: 7269 7074 2039 2e32 370a 4372 6561 7469 ript 9.27.Creati 00000060: 6f6e 4461 7465 3a20 2020 4672 6920 4a61 onDate: Fri Ja 00000070: 6e20 3231 2031 393a 3538 3a33 3820 3230 n 21 19:58:38 20 00000080: 3232 2041 4544 540a 4d6f 6444 6174 653a 22 AEDT.ModDate: 00000090: 2020 2020 2020 2020 4672 6920 4a61 6e20 Fri Jan _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58206> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/