Unicode minus sign (U+2212) not accepted by Jessie, yet used in documentation, causing mysterious failure
ID0000366:
**This issue was created automatically from Mantis Issue 366. Further discussion may take place here.**
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| **Id** | **Project** | **Category** | **View** | **Due Date** | **Updated** |
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| ID0000366 | Frama-C | Plug-in > jessie | public | 2010-01-04 | 2014-02-12 |
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| **Reporter** | dwheeler | **Assigned To** | monate | **Resolution** | fixed |
| **Priority** | normal | **Severity** | minor | **Reproducibility** | always |
| **Platform** | - | **OS** | - | **OS Version** | - |
| **Product Version** | Frama-C Beryllium-20090902 | **Target Version** | - | **Fixed in Version** | Frama-C Boron-20100401 |
### Description :
The Jessie tutorial:
http://frama-c.cea.fr/jessie_tutorial_index.html
includes many examples, but cutting and pasting from them
produces mysterious, hard-to-understand failures.
The problem is that the HTML (and probably PDF) uses Unicode U+2212
("Minus sign") as the subtraction operator;
You can see this by searching for "−" in the HTML.
Frama-C/Jessie does not accept this; they
expect U+002D ("hyphen-minus") instead.
I recommend that Frama-C/Jessie be changed so that U+2122 is
permitted as an alternative to "-", just as many other
Unicode characters are already accepted.
In addition, the documentation should perhaps be changed to use "-"
so that it will work with older systems
that do not cut-and-paste this character correctly.
On my system, the difference is a pixel or two, and is thus
difference is rather hard to detect.
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