2011/10/20 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> I came across some bad space handling in apertium-postchunk, notably: if
> there were two spaces in a row, they would be treated as separate
> blanks, so that if you had
>
> ^chunk{^word<tag>$ ^word<tag>$^word<tag>$}
>
> and you tried outputting
>
> chunk pos="1"
> b pos="1"
> chunk pos="2"
> b pos="2"
> chunk pos="3"
>
> it would become
>
> ^chunk{^word<tag>$ ^word<tag>$ ^word<tag>$}
>
> Also, escaped characters and non-alphabetics (stuff like \^ or " that
> occur between words) were not output.
>
> I added a patch to
> http://bugs.apertium.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89 where part
> of the problem was reported already. I'd be happy if someone could test
> if it works and can be committed.
>
>
> On a related note, Gabriel Gregori Manzano's vm-for-transfer-cpp already
> handles double spaces correctly, but doesn't handle escaped chars yet
> (https://github.com/ggm/vm-for-transfer-cpp/issues/9). Although there
> are still some issues with it, I'd recommend everyone who's working on
> transfer to try apertium-transfervm-compiler; it can provide a lot of
> helpful feedback (like if you've declared the wrong number of parameters
> to a macro …).
>
>
The issue was that I forgot to handle escaped characters when parsing the
chunk content, it worked in all the other cases. I have fixed it now and it
should work in every case. I also added all the tests cases you provided to
my testing script.
Thank you for the bug reports!
>
> best regards,
> Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
>
>
>
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