Attach (recommended) or Link to PDF file here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091223123331/http://sci2s.ugr.es/keel/pdf/specific/articulo/alp99.pdf
(aka `tests/pdfs/issue1936.pdf`)
 
When I copy/paste the multiplication sign on the first line of the first page, I got a `£`.
And when I do the same in evince I got a `×` (the same in chrome).
The font descriptor is:
```
<< /Ascent 0 /CapHeight 749 /CharSet (/multiply) /Descent 0 /Flags 262212 /FontBBox [ -27 -940 1332 825 ] /FontFile3 59 0 R /FontName /KHPEPJ+CMBSY10 /ItalicAngle -14.035 /StemV 0 /Type /FontDescriptor >>
```
So it should be possible to guess the correct character in using the `CharSet` entry:
https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf#page=291


if (!proto) {
      proto = [[], []]; 
    }
    var strings = [
      proto[0][0] || "Original licence", 
      proto[0][1] || name, 
      proto[0][2] || "Unknown", 
      proto[0][3] || "uniqueID", 
      proto[0][4] || name, 
      proto[0][5] || "Version 0.11", 
      proto[0][6] || "", 
      proto[0][7] || "Unknown", 
      proto[0][8] || "Unknown", 
      proto[0][9] || "Unknown", 
    ];
    
    
    var stringsUnicode = [];
    var i, ii, j, jj, str;
    for (i = 0, ii = strings.length; i < ii; i++) {
      str = proto[1][i] || strings[i];