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When highlighting and copying text the dash or hyphen copies as 173 ASC II value. This works for most programs but I have come across an application that expect the dash or hyphen to be ASC II value of 45.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Maybe a custom language?
=== additional information ===
I can't send a screen shot due to sensitivity but maybe the following can help...
When the customer created the PDF the UNICODE Latin-1 Supplement was used. The character HEX code "00AD" (137 decimal) was used to represent the "dash" character.
See chart http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf
The program being pasted into is ASCII character based. The expected character code for the "dash" is 45 decimal.
See chart http://www.asciitable.com/
Intersting side note...
When copied from Adobe Reader and FoxIT Reader pasting into the ASCII based software is not the same.
When pasted from Adobe the "dash" disappears.
When pasted from FoxIT the "dash" is pasted as a period.
I can make it work if pasting would work the same as Adobe and the "dash" disappears.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Maybe a custom language?
=== additional information ===
I can't send a screen shot due to sensitivity but maybe the following can help...
When the customer created the PDF the UNICODE Latin-1 Supplement was used. The character HEX code "00AD" (137 decimal) was used to represent the "dash" character.
See chart http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf
The program being pasted into is ASCII character based. The expected character code for the "dash" is 45 decimal.
See chart http://www.asciitable.com/
Intersting side note...
When copied from Adobe Reader and FoxIT Reader pasting into the ASCII based software is not the same.
When pasted from Adobe the "dash" disappears.
When pasted from FoxIT the "dash" is pasted as a period.
I can make it work if pasting would work the same as Adobe and the "dash" disappears.
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