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.** --- | **Id** | **Project** | **Category** | **View** | **Due Date** | **Updated** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ID0000366 | Frama-C | Plug-in > jessie | public | 2010-01-04 | 2014-02-12 | | | | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **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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