[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-1794) TXTParser removes form feed characters

["Ken Krugler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ken Krugler commented on TIKA-1794:
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The output of the Tika parse process is XHTML, and I don't believe a form feed character is valid in XHTML. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets for the valid range of characters, which (in the control range) is only tab, CR and LF. Please take a look, and if this makes sense then go ahead and close this issue, thanks.

> TXTParser removes form feed characters
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-1794
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1794
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: parser
>    Affects Versions: 1.11
>         Environment: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
>            Reporter: Olivier M
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: parser, txt
>         Attachments: form_feed.txt
>
>
> Just noticed that Apache Tika removes form feed characters (0C in UTF-8) when parsing a text file.
> If I compare the hex bytes of the original file and the hex bytes of the extracted text I can see that the 0C character is replaced by  EF BF BD which is the UTF-8 replacement character.
> {code:title=Test.java|borderStyle=solid}
> 	public static void main(String[] args) {
> 		InputStream is = null;
> 		
> 		try {
> 			is = new FileInputStream("form_feed.txt");
> 			
> 			AutoDetectParser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
> 			Writer stringWriter = new StringWriter();
> 			ContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler(stringWriter);
> 			Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
> 			parser.parse(is, handler, metadata);
> 			
> 			String extractedText = stringWriter.toString();
> 			System.out.println(extractedText);
> 			
> 			String hex = Hex.encodeHexString(extractedText.getBytes("UTF-8"));
> 			
> 			System.out.println(hex); //0C replaced by EFBFBD
> 		} catch (Exception e) {
> 			e.printStackTrace();
> 		} finally {
> 			IOUtils.closeQuietly(is);
> 		}
> 	}
> {code}



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