Strange symbols instead '-' in smart text output

It blocks quality control (by comparing smarttext output for different builds)

The text you attached has only 36 lines in total, so it can't have line 55. There are also no dashes on lines 1 and 33. Did you attach the correct image?

On Ubuntu 8.04 I also get 0xE2 0x80 0x94 in all of these cases. What's wrong with this?

These are not valid symbols for plaint text files.

2009/2/3 Yury V. Zaytsev <email address hidden>

> On Ubuntu 8.04 I also get 0xE2 0x80 0x94 in all of these cases. What's
> wrong with this?
>
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> Strange symbols instead '-' in smart text output
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> Status in Linux port of Cuneiform: New
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> Bug description:
> At line 1, 33, 55 in smarttext output (see attach). It looks like bad
> substitution (0xE2,0x80,0x94) for dash.
>
> I use 'smarttext' output format.
>

I'm running Cuneiform 1.0 and the behaviour that I'm observing is also, like others already have mentioned, that a dash gets translated into three characters: —
(that's U+00E2, U+20AC, U+201D).
This happens not only when I use "smarttext" for format, also with "html", "hocr" and "text".
When using Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, etc. Cuneiform will produce —.
However, when using Bulgarian, Russian, etc. Cuneiform will produce: — (that's U+0432, U+0402, U+201D).

The former output results were for English, the character encoding is UTF-8.
And here are the Cuneiform output results for Bulgarian.
Note that the character encoding is also UTF-8, like the former for English. (You'll probably have to adjust your browser settings.)

The final expansion to UTF-8 happens in text.cpp:OneChar. However debugging reveals that the dash (value 151 or 0x97) has already been expanded to the specified characters. Those individual are then UTF-8 encoded as expected. The question becomes: where does the first expansion/substitution happen and why?

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The problem is caused by the em dash appearing in rcm.c as a unicode character while the program uses one-byte encoding in its internals and converts it to unicode while producing the output. The included patch solves the issue.
Other suspicious places in the source that may cause issues similar to this are line 550 of Kern/rstr/src/rcm.c and line 98 of Kern/rling/sources/c/speldict.c.

Thank you for your patch.

However Cuneiform is currently unmaintained so no new patches will be applied to trunk. Sorry.

I am one of those still using Cuneiform, however, unfortunately there
is no maintainer of Cuneiform as of now.
Thanks for posting the patch
Regards
Julien

2011/12/13 Alexander Kandaurov <email address hidden>:
> The problem is caused by the em dash appearing in rcm.c as a unicode character while the program uses one-byte encoding in its internals and converts it to unicode while producing the output. The included patch solves the issue.
> Other suspicious places in the source that may cause issues similar to this are line 550 of Kern/rstr/src/rcm.c and line 98 of Kern/rling/sources/c/speldict.c.
>
> ** Patch added: "cuneiform-linux-1.1.0-emdash.patch"
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/+bug/324256/+attachment/2631040/+files/cuneiform-linux-1.1.0-emdash.patch
>
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> Title:
>  Strange symbols instead '-' in smart text output
>
> Status in Linux port of Cuneiform:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  At line 1, 33, 55 in smarttext output (see attach). It looks like bad
>  substitution (0xE2,0x80,0x94) for dash.
>
>  I use 'smarttext' output format.
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