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Format of epsilon symbol from lt-print
This is a bit bikeshedding, but I think that we should change the epsilon symbol in lt-print from ε
either to <ε>
or to @0@
. It probably needs to change if we're ever going to deal with Greek, although it's very low priority.
My feeling is that <ε>
is more Apertiumy. This could also be updated in HFST's hfst-txt2fst
tool so that the -e
option is not necessary.
Though we do already have lt-print -H
to switch from ε
to @0@
.
I suppose one way to handle the Greek issue in lt-comp
would be to have an option to tell it to use HFST symbols instead of lt-print
symbols so that it won't interpret ε
.
I just ran into this issue, so now in the branch of #119 lt-comp -H
will make ε
be a character rather than being treated as an empty transition.