Whitespace after ligatures

[ChristophLeonhardt]

In some protocols, following ligatures a single whitespace is added, disrupting the respective word. The ligatures are correctly translated into single chars by pdftohtml however.

Examples: "défi nition", "diffi culté", "spécifi que"

This problem already occurs in the xml which is generated by pdftohtml:

pdftohtml -xml -hidden -f 3 -l 39 -q -stdout -i 20080095.pdf

There, line 73 reads:

défi nition condamnés à de courtes peines ou placés en

[ablaette]

This is a related poppler issue I find:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772637
As poppler is actively developed (last release in December, see https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html), maybe we should file an issue here?
https://github.com/danigm/poppler