> That would seem, in all fairness, to be a question to aim
> solely at the authors of Evince, since both the XeTeX and
> the Adobe side of things seems to be behaving perfectly.
Note that decomposing the characters when copying it is not even
necessarily a bad decision: using compatibility decomposition is a
perfectly reasonable solution if one wants to make sure that the
character string stays recognisable across all applications where it
might be pasted (the PDF reader has no idea what's going to happen at
the other end, when the user pastes the text). It does indeed transform
the string in a (possibly) non-reversible way, but it does not alter its
integrity to the point where it wouldn't be legible (as opposed to, for
example, copy-pasting from a PDF using a custom non-standard font, where
the glyphs one sees bear no relation to the underlying characters).
Arthur
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