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I'm curious what happened in the source, that a copy/paste exposed such odd artifacts. "e§ort" == effort "Öve" == not sure. Maybe "over five"?
by nilamo 1mo ago
I'm curious what happened in the source, that a copy/paste exposed such odd artifacts.
"e§ort" == effort
"Öve" == not sure. Maybe "over five"?
- zamfi 1mo agoI wondered the same. ff and fi are common ligature letter pairs, maybe the original is in an encoding where those are represented with separate characters, which then correspond to § and Ö in whatever encoding we find here?
- messe 1mo agoThey look more like OCR errors than encoding errors.
- kzz102 1mo agoIt was copied from a pdf, maybe LaTeX generated. All the ligatures are wrong -- not sure where the problem lies, the pdf itself, pdf reader, or the clipboard on Linux.
- yencabulator 1mo agoPDF is a render-only format with optional hidden metadata for semantics. The PDF file they created knows how to paint the ligatures they used, like "fi" and "ff", but doesn't contain the `/ToUnicode` metadata for what those symbols meant. The generated PDF happened to put the "fi" ligature at an index that is normally used "Ö", and didn't provide more information.