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Some Punctuation is Replaced by ...'s #3

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit page with certain punctuation, for instance search Google for St.
Patrick's Day.
2. Punctuation is replaced by ... and read badly by WebAnywhere.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Should keep the punctuation intact.  Rewrote this to handle the TTS
engine's inability to correctly handle some characters.  I think this may
have to do with the character encodings that are used.  Currently, the
rewriting is happening in wawp.php - the web proxy.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by jeffrey....@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2008 at 9:21

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
I was able to reproduce this problem. I also tried some other misc. characters 
and
only found the ' character to do this.

Original comment by Jessica....@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2008 at 6:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
The way Markdown (wikification software) obfuscates e-mail addresses is also
converted to periods.  It's something to do with using hex or binary stuff to
represent the characters, such as "m".  For an example, see the e-mail links
toward the bottom of http://www.drproject.org.  It would be nice if WebAnywhere 
could
handle stuff obfuscated it hdin may so that the meaning of such links would not 
be
lost for WA users.  (Let's just hope the e-mail harvesting spammers don't catch 
up.)

Original comment by liz.blan...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2008 at 10:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
The punctuation is no longer replaced by '...' but some characters read 
incorrectly.  For example, '(' is sometimes read as 'comma'.

Original comment by Robin.Marie.Miller@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2010 at 5:53