Opening hours not parsed due to non-standard dash

[hb0nd]

Found opening-hours that should have been parsed: Mo-Sa 07:00–18:00; Su 09:00-14:00 (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5022879262) on closer inspection, the dash between Mo & Sa is actually an En Dash instead of a standard Hyphen-Minus. technically this is an OSM data issue, but it would be good to handle it.

need to convert all similar dashes in the generator (although not characters within quotation marks): ‐ HYPHEN ‑ NON-BREAKING HYPHEN ‒ FIGURE DASH – EN DASH ﹘SMALL EM DASH ۔‎ ARABIC FULL STOP ⁃ HYPHEN BULLET ˗ MODIFIER LETTER MINUS SIGN − MINUS SIGN ➖ HEAVY MINUS SIGN Ⲻ COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER DIALECT-P NI

(similar characters found from https://www.unicode.org/Public/security/15.0.0/confusables.txt)

[biodranik]

Should these dashes be replaced only in opening_hours tags, or also somewhere else?

[hb0nd]

Anywhere that makes use of the opening_hours specification. It'd be good to have a generic function to correct opening_hours-like values like this

[matheusgomesms]

Just to chime in, I'm trying to fix this on OSM data. But of course, there is no guarantee, after fixing, that this will happen again. For an example, OsmAND can parse the data, even with non-standard dashes.

[biodranik]

Converting dashes in the generator specifically for opening hours is a good idea. Maybe there are other chars too that we can normalize? Numbers? punctuation? Did someone run the analysis?

[matheusgomesms]

Converting dashes in the generator specifically for opening hours is a good idea. Maybe there are other chars too that we can normalize? Numbers? punctuation? Did someone run the analysis?

Check some analysis here, please: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/automated-edit-proposal-convert-non-standard-dashes-to-standard-dashes/110206/50 (ran by @westnordost)