Consolas hyphen problem in PDFs

Here's the setup: FrameMaker 7.2, Windows XP, Acrobat Pro 8.1.3, although I think all versions are actually irrelevant to the issue.
I recently switched to Consolas font for my code listings. But when Acrobat/Distiller converts the FrameMaker file to PDF, the hyphens end up with the wrong encoding.
It's definitely an Acrobat issue. When I copy-paste from my FrameMaker source file to a text file, the consolas hyphen correctly shows as unicode 2D (decimal 45, the "hyphen minus" character). But copy-pasting from the PDF ends up with the unicode 2010 character (the "hyphen" instead of the "hyphen minus" char). And while they "look" the same, engineering readers need to be able to copy-paste from the PDF.
So, is there a patch or a way to tell Distiller to map this character as needed?
TIA,
-Monique

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:54:49 -0700
From: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: Consolas hyphen problem in PDFs
Exactly how are you converting to PDF. You say Acrobat/Distiller, but what are the steps you are taking. There are too many options not to isolate your process first. Are you printing to the Adobe PDF printer, exporting, or something else?
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The word: processo
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cesso .....
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select token_text
from dr$JMMC_TST_INDEX$i
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or UPPER(token_text) = UPPER('PRO') ;
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Strange thing is, several months ago I tried this test with the same PDF, and everything went by without any problem.
The tests were done on different machines, and on both occasions I used Oracle 10.1.0.5.0.
Looks like I'm overlooking something or maybe some obscure setting (of DB, server or system) is causing the problem.
Suddenly hyphenized words in PDFs, stopped being indexed correctly.
Searched in the manuals and in this forum, and could not find a solution. Any help from anyone in this forum ?
Thanks in advance.

Hello everybody on this forum
As the initiator of this thread, I am glad that after some months, someone else is looking at this issue.
To add/clear to the confusion, I have followed Roger Ford suggestion.
Here’s the test I ran
1) Created a minimal test file (using Windows Notepad) with the following content:
ABC-
DEF
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41 42 43 2D 0D 0A 44 45 46 00
A B C - . . D E F .
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article_id NUMBER PRIMARY KEY
, fmt VARCHAR2(30)
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The main difference to Roger Ford test case is: my content column is a BLOB instead of a VARCHAR2.
The reason why my doc column is a BLOB, is because the site I’m building, content come from our CMS, and has different types both text and binary (eg Word, PDFs, etc), that I need to index together.
So I use a mixed-content column in a materialized view, to prepare/consolidate/hold all contents I index.
3) I inserted 1 row in above table (using TOAD for Oracle 8.6.), putting my minimal test file in the doc column.
4) Create Preferences and Index
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FILTER CTXSYS.AUTO_FILTER
STOPLIST CTXSYS.EMPTY_STOPLIST
FORMAT COLUMN fmt' );
COMMIT;
Note: the basic lexer SKIPJOINS and CONTINUATION characters, were set the same as the hyphen character used in test file.
5) Tokens indexed:
select token_text from dr$JMMC_TST_INDEX$i
Shows:
ABC
DEF
6) Filter indexed content and generate a plaintext version:
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query_id number
, document clob
commit ;
begin
ctx_doc.filter( 'JMMC_TST_INDEX', '1', 'JMMC_filtertab', '11', TRUE);
end;
Hex view of plaintext version is:
41 42 43 2D 20 20 44 45 46 00
A B C - D E F .
Note that the original end-of-line chars (0D 0A) were replaced by 2 SPACES.
It looks like the filter replaces end-of-line chars by SPACES, and feeds the lexer, with something like:
ABC- DEF (instead of: ABC-DEF) ;
So the poor lexer, sees 2 tokens and has no clue they originally were only one hyphenised token.
This is consistent with what Meta Link Note 124624.1 - Intermedia Text & Continuation Character ('-') in PDF says.
7) Just for comparison the result of Roger Ford test (using a VARCHAR column instead of a BLOB) is:
Hex view of the filtered plaintext version is:
61 62 63 2D 0D 0A 64 65 66 00
a b c - . . d e f .
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No matter what I tried, results were all the same: if I index a BLOB column, I’m not able to index hyphenized lines correctly.
According to the manuals, the CTXSYS.AUTO_FILTER were supposed to deal correctly with mixed-content columns if given the correct information (ie FORMAT COLUMN)
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