[apt4ssx8] Re: an annoying habit of tesseract
- From: "Kent A. Reed" <kentallanreed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: apt4ssx8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:49:47 -0500
On 2/20/2013 5:50 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
Gentle persons:
Something I forgot to mention about tesseract is its annoying habit of
intermingling UTF-8 multi-byte characters with single-byte ASCII
characters in its output. Depending on particular circumstances, these
characters can cause asciidoc to do odd things as it formats its output.
Oof. I managed to turn the argument upside down. It's not the UTF-8
encoding that's the problem per se, it's the odd characters that
tesseract decides it to encode. Those single-byte ASCII characters are
just the so-called first code page in UTF-8 and they also happen to be
the characters asciidoc knows best (it's not called "ASCII"doc for nothing).
And, iconv isn't barfing on my selection of input encoding; it's trying,
in a way only its developer could love, to tell me it finds characters
like the back curly single-quotation mark that it can't map into ASCII.
The "-c" option can be invoked to tell it to delete those but then it
deletes all upper code-page characters, whereas I want to convert
certain ones for which I know the originating ASCII character.
What I need do is write a little utility of my own.
Regards,
Kent
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