diff --git a/ghostscript-pdf-charset-conv.patch b/ghostscript-pdf-charset-conv.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de9d0b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ghostscript-pdf-charset-conv.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+diff -up ghostscript-9.09/devices/vector/gdevpdfe.c.pdf-charset-conv ghostscript-9.09/devices/vector/gdevpdfe.c
+--- ghostscript-9.09/devices/vector/gdevpdfe.c.pdf-charset-conv	2013-08-21 15:06:40.000000000 +0100
++++ ghostscript-9.09/devices/vector/gdevpdfe.c	2013-08-22 16:33:24.665075217 +0100
+@@ -380,10 +380,10 @@ pdf_xmp_write_translated(gx_device_pdf *
+             }
+             memset(buf1, 0x00, (j * sizeof(UTF16)) + 2);
+             for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
+-                if (buf0[i] <= 0x7f || buf0[0] >= 0xAE) {
+-                    if (buf0[0] == 0x7f) {
++                if (buf0[i] <= 0x7f || buf0[i] >= 0xAE) {
++                    if (buf0[i] == 0x7f) {
+                         emprintf1(pdev->memory, "PDFDocEncoding %x cannot be represented in Unicode\n",
+-                            buf0[0]);
++                            buf0[i]);
+                     } else
+                         buf1[(i * 2) + 3] = buf0[i];
+                 } else {
diff --git a/ghostscript.spec b/ghostscript.spec
index 9909ca2..ff7464d 100644
--- a/ghostscript.spec
+++ b/ghostscript.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Summary: A PostScript interpreter and renderer
 Name: ghostscript
 Version: %{gs_ver}
 
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 
 # Included CMap data is Redistributable, no modification permitted,
 # see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/487510
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Patch6: ghostscript-Fontmap.local.patch
 Patch7: ghostscript-iccprofiles-initdir.patch
 Patch8: ghostscript-gdevcups-debug-uninit.patch
 Patch9: ghostscript-wrf-snprintf.patch
+Patch10: ghostscript-pdf-charset-conv.patch
 
 Requires: urw-fonts >= 1.1, ghostscript-fonts
 Requires: poppler-data
@@ -125,6 +126,9 @@ rm -rf expat freetype icclib jasper jpeg lcms lcms2 libpng openjpeg zlib cups/li
 # Use more caution when converting floats to strings (bug #980085).
 %patch9 -p1 -b .wrf-snprintf
 
+# Fixed character set conversion issue in pdfwrite (bug #999927).
+%patch10 -p1 -b .pdf-charset-conv
+
 # Convert manual pages to UTF-8
 from8859_1() {
         iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < "$1" > "${1}_"
@@ -315,6 +319,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_libdir}/libgs.so
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Aug 22 2013 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.09-2
+- Fixed character set conversion issue in pdfwrite (bug #999927).
+
 * Thu Aug 22 2013 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.09-1
 - 9.09.