"Jimmy O'Regan" <[email protected]> writes:

> On 26 January 2011 09:34, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The -z option makes lt-proc flush whenever it sees the null character,
>> which is nice. But if you don't give it -z, it exits on the null
>> character -- I'm guessing it shouldn't...
>>
>
> Yeah, though I think it's one of those things that falls into the
> category of "if this has happened, you have bigger problems than the
> translator not working".
>
> It would probably be enough to either escape or discard nulls in the
> deformatter. Is there any compelling reason to not simply discard
> them?

Only if you want to use lt-proc -z. That is, removing nulls in the
deformatter would have to be optional, so it can still work with
lt-proc -z.

Of course you can just run everything with lt-proc -z anyway... but
maybe that gives other side effects?

>> Added a bug here:
>> http://bugs.apertium.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108
>>
>> (I got a null character out when converting a pdf to text, so they do
>> occur in the wild.)
>>
>
> Seems to me to be a double bug -- whatever your were using almost
> certainly should not have given you a null in its output.

Of course; notified pdfminer of the bug too.


-Kevin


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