Merge pull request #5 from xi/drop-shy

drop soft hyphens

pospell.py

@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ def clear(po_path, line, drop_capitalized=False):
         r"[0-9]+h",  # Hours
         r"%\([a-z_]+?\)s",  # Sphinx variable
         r"« . »",  # Single letter examples (typically in Unicode documentation)
+        "\xad",  # soft hyphen
     }
     if drop_capitalized:
         to_drop.add(

tests/test_pospell.py

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ def test_clear():
     # We remove single letters in quotes
     assert clear("test", "La lettre « é » est seule.") == "La lettre  est seule."
 
+    # We remove soft hyphens
+    assert clear("some\xadthing") == "something"
+
     # We drop hours because hunspell whines on them
     assert clear("test", "Rendez-vous à 10h chez Murex") == "Rendez-vous à  chez Murex"