Operator decision 2026-09-18, and the whole of it: okf removes the soft
hyphen, the guard is untouched, and the number is BOOKED.
`normalise_extracted(text) -> (text, removed)` in `extract`, applied
once at the end of `extract_document`, so both entry points and both
sides of a plan's `text_sha256` see one string. `_pdf_units` measures
its page offsets through the same door, because that table is
CHARACTER offsets rebuilt from the pages while the text it indexes
comes back normalised -- two readings of one document, and a table
built against the other names the wrong page with full confidence.
Removing a character removes no newline, so every line-indexed rule
downstream is unmoved by construction.
`ExtractedDocument.soft_hyphens` carries the count out;
`InboxResult.normalised` carries it per document; `account_run` reads
it off the RUN rather than recounting the source, because a second
count would be a second reader. It reaches the accounting JSON as
`normalised_soft_hyphen` at both levels and `log.md` as a
`**Normalisation**` bullet naming the count, the documents touched and
that no other character is moved.
EXPOSURE, measured and not assumed: 0 of the 78 readable documents of
the K2 reference corpus carry U+00AD or any of the four real
zero-width characters (the 8 unreadable ones raise before extraction),
0 in the pinned K2 bundle's concept bodies, and 0 across
`tests/fixtures`, `examples`, `skills`, `docs`, `src`, README and
CHANGELOG. The door cannot have moved a byte anyone here has measured.
Suite 2179 passed, 1 skipped; ruff and `mypy --strict src/` clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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