Package: pstotext
Version: 1.9-1sarge1
Severity: minor
Depending on which standard you read, and how you read them, 0xAD can
mean one of the following:
- An indicator that a program may put in a file to say "I broke this
word and line here" displayed just like hyphen/minus (one reading
of ISO-8859-1). Under this reading, it must only occur at the end
of a line. [KORPELA]
- An indicator that a line break MAY be taken here. If the
displaying program elects to take the line break, it should
display e.g., U+2010. Otherwise, it should display nothing.
(Unicode; HTML; other reading of 8859-1). See especially [TR14]'s
section on the "soft hyphen"
Which one is correct really doesn't matter, but its fairly clear that
the hyphenated version of email should be written as either e-mail or
e‐mail, but certainly not as email. [Depending on your email client,
the last one may just show as "email". Its not --- its e\255mail]
pstotext should never output \255.
[KORPELA] http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html
[TR14] http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr14/
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Versions of packages pstotext depends on:
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ii gs-gpl [gs] 8.01-5 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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