Google-drive – Why does Google Docs change the title of the doc to Chinese characters

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When I open a pdf file from an email (happens on some but not all pdfs) Google Docs comes up with the correct title while showing the preview for my document. Then a second later, it changes the title to Chinese.

This happens in both Firefox and Chrome.

Before:
alt text

After: alt text

Here's another example of English text:

JS 6.10.pdf – Powered by Google Docs

Here's the actual chinese it turns it into:

㽉㽮㽴㽵㽩㽴㽟㽑㽂㽏㽂㽟㽉㽮㽴㽥㽲㽮㽡㽬㼮㽰㽤㽦

Best Answer

Google is aware of the bug and will fix it shortly (or so they said on 7/26/10). http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=15406028a889cfe3&hl=en

Seems to be dependent on the PDF creator.

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