{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/renaud/neuroNER/issues/38","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/renaud/neuroNER/issues/38/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/renaud/neuroNER/issues/38/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/renaud/neuroNER/issues/38/events","html_url":"https://github.com/renaud/neuroNER/issues/38","id":104100209,"number":38,"title":"Encode the various ways of encoding a hyphen sign","user":{"login":"stripathy","id":2458713,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2458713?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy","html_url":"https://github.com/stripathy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stripathy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-08-31T17:53:00Z","updated_at":"2015-08-31T17:53:00Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I noticed that the following is matched in neuroNER:\r\n\r\n>GAD1-expressing cell\r\n\r\nbut not \r\n\r\n>GAD1–expressing cell\r\n\r\nNote the difference in hyphen signs (they're actually different unicode characters). \r\n\r\nIn NeuroElectro, I replace weird unicode hyphens with a normal '-' sign.\r\n```python\r\n    newStr = re.sub(u'\\u2212', '-',inStr)\r\n    newStr = re.sub(u'\\u2013', '-', newStr)\r\n```\r\n"}}