[apt4ssx8] Re: an annoying habit of tesseract
- From: dave <dengvall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: apt4ssx8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:19:16 -0800
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 19:49 -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote:
> 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
>
I find sed a bit arcane but sometimes it is handy. :-)
Dave
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