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and subject line Bug#470200: fixed in uni2ascii 4.7-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #470200,
regarding unicode ligatures to ASCII
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Package: uni2ascii
Version: 4.4-1
Severity: minor
I would like to discuss today the Unicodes
¯ ’“”− ff fi fl ffi ...
that is
00AF 2019 201C 201D 2212 FB00 FB01 FB02 FB03 ...
You see, I noticed them when I used pdftotext on
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~anirban/Anir-networking07.pdf
and then tired to read the results on my ASCII PDA.
I wish pdftotext had a flag to make the output ASCII.
Anyway, even uni2ascii -ydpxef wouldn't get all of them into ASCII.
The ligatures remained -- but turned into 0x codes. (P.S., I wish
there was one flag to "give me best ASCII", lest one ponder the man
page too long.) Also apparently there is no way to get uni2ascii to
not turn what it can't deal with to 0x codes, and let sail thru for
some other filter to complete the job.
Now turning to pstotext, whose man page says "pstotext deals better
with punctuation and ligatures." Not in this case.
Now turning to Text::Unidecode: sorry: mangled ligatures.
Anyways, I ended up having to write by hand:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while (<>) {
s/¯/_/g; #just a guess
s/’/'/g;
s/“/"/g;
s/”/"/g;
s/−/-/g;
s/ff/ff/g;
s/fi/fi/g;
s/fl/fl/g;
s/ffi/ffi/g;
s/ffl/ffl/g;
s/ſt/ft/g;
s/st/st/g;
print;
}
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Source: uni2ascii
Source-Version: 4.7-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
uni2ascii, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
uni2ascii_4.7-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/u/uni2ascii/uni2ascii_4.7-1.diff.gz
uni2ascii_4.7-1.dsc
to pool/main/u/uni2ascii/uni2ascii_4.7-1.dsc
uni2ascii_4.7-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/u/uni2ascii/uni2ascii_4.7-1_i386.deb
uni2ascii_4.7.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/u/uni2ascii/uni2ascii_4.7.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated uni2ascii package)
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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:10:03 +0530
Source: uni2ascii
Binary: uni2ascii
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.7-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
uni2ascii - UTF-8 to 7-bit ASCII and vice versa converter
Closes: 470200
Changes:
uni2ascii (4.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release
+ Added missing characters to -p and -x options, Fixes Unicode
ligatures to ASCII issues (Closes: #470200)
* debian/docs:
+ Removed AUTHORS file from list as there is single author only
from upstream. It can be added when more authors will be added.
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