Chatter error messages

[Kevin Donnelly]

Hi Brian

Great.  I've removed the angle brackets and reworded £400.

::::On Sunday 18 March 2012 Brian MacWhinney said::::
> On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:21 AM, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> > I've gone through all the files and cleared all the errors, except for
> > some bullet errors, which the others will look at, and two remaining
> > ones:
> > 
> > *ELI:	[- spa] <no sé> .
> > *** File "patagonia37.cha": line 1745, column 23: parser: no viable
> > alternative at input '.'
> 
> A basic rule of CHAT is that a pair of angle brackets must always be
> followed by something in square brackets.  Chatter is parsing along and
> then hits the period and says, wait, I was looking for something else.  It
> would be great if it would tell you what it is looking for, but that turns
> out to be difficult to program.
> 
> > Is this because of the preceding angle bracket?
> > 
> > %eng:	he had paid £400 for the papers.
> > *** File "patagonia26.cha": line 431, column 19: lexer: skipping
> > nonviable character '£' (Unicode \u00a3) in state 78
> > 
> > In depfile.cut I have
> > %eng:	* [*] "* +... +/. +!? +//. +/? +"/. +". +" +^ +< +, ++ +//? +..? #
> > and that allows it to clear CHECK, but what do I do to get it to clear
> > Chatter.
> > 
> CHECK doesn't do any Unicode character checking at all.  Chatter, on the
> other hand, does a fair amount, most of which is good because it catches
> errors.  But sometimes there is a character such as £ that lies in some
> range that is being excluded and Chatter gets unhappy. I will check with
> Franklin to see if there is a simple way to allow in £.  However, we don't
> really want number and symbols because they are not really words.
> A better format is "he had paid four hundred pounds for the papers"

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Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly
kevindonnelly.org.uk

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