Avoid false copyright detection on unicode or non-meaningful text#4855
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…ght detection Skip non-meaningful unicode lines to reduce false positives in copyright detection Some unicode or binary-like text was incorrectly being processed during tokenization, leading to false copyright detections. This change adds a lightweight filter in get_tokens() to skip lines that do not contain any alphabetic characters. This prevents non-readable or unicode-heavy content from being parsed, while keeping existing valid detections unaffected. Fixes aboutcode-org#4381 Signed-off-by: KUSHAL P <kushalmys55@gmail.com>
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Summary
This PR reduces false positives in copyright detection caused by unicode or non-meaningful text.
Problem
In certain files (e.g., unicode or binary-like data), non-readable text was incorrectly interpreted as copyright content. For example, blocks of unicode characters were being parsed and resulted in outputs such as:
This creates noise and reduces the accuracy of detection.
Solution
A lightweight filtering step has been added in the tokenization stage (
get_tokens()), which skips lines that do not contain any alphabetic characters.This ensures that:
Impact
Fixes #4381