[jira] [Closed] (PDFBOX-371) Soft Hyphen character not mapped to hyphen in WinAnsiEncoding (and suggested fix)

["Tilman Hausherr (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-371?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tilman Hausherr closed PDFBOX-371.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

I believe that this has been solved by PDFBOX-1713 and PDFBOX-1357, which has a similar solution. If it doesn't work for you, please reopen but attach a PDF and explain what doesn't work for you.

> Soft Hyphen character not mapped to hyphen in WinAnsiEncoding (and suggested fix)
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>                 Key: PDFBOX-371
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-371
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.3
>         Environment: Java 1.5, OSX 10.5
>            Reporter: Robert Baruch
>            Priority: Minor
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> When running text extraction on a PDF file that contains the soft hyphen character in the WinAnsiEncoding (that is, 0255), the text extractor incorrectly maps this as a space, when it should be a hyphen. As the PDF Reference 1.7 says in note 5 of table D.1:
> 'The hyphen character is also encoded as 255 in WinAnsiEncoding. The meaning of this duplicate code is "soft hyphen," but it is typographically the same as hyphen.'
> The reason that a soft hyphen is typographically the same as hyphen is that a soft hyphen indicates that a hyphen MAY be placed here if necessary (i.e. breaking a word across lines). Since the soft hyphen should only be put, by the PDF producer, at the end of a line to break a word, it stands to reason that the option to place a hyphen must be taken.
> I think I've traced the reason for the substitution to Encoding.getName, where because there is no mapping in the codeToName mapping for this code in WinAnsiEncoding, by default it returns "space".
> The fix is not as simple as adding an addCharacterEncoding( 0255, COSName.getPDFName("hyphen")) to WinAnsiEncoding, because that will set both the codeToName mapping AND the nameToCode mapping, which will overwrite the 055 nameToCode mapping.
> Adding this line:
> codeToName.add( new Integer(0255), COSName.getPDFName("hyphen"));
> to the end of the WinAnsiEncoding constructor seems to fix the issue.



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