Preserve Unicode separators in public metadata preflight

paper_atlas/audits/public_openreview.py

@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ def audit(db, inventory, out, *, pg_service=None, pg_schema=None):
             if json.loads(path.with_suffix('.manifest.json').read_text()) != manifest:
                 raise ValueError('Collected manifest differs from inventory')
             count = 0
-            for line in path.read_text().splitlines():
+            # Unicode paragraph/line separators are valid inside JSON strings;
+            # split physical byte lines, not Unicode text boundaries.
+            for line in path.read_bytes().splitlines():
                 row = json.loads(line)
                 if any(row[key] != manifest[key] for key in ('source', 'venue', 'year', 'track')):
                     raise ValueError('Record edition differs from inventory')

tests/test_public_openreview.py

@@ -152,6 +152,35 @@ class PublicOpenReviewTests(unittest.TestCase):
             finally:
                 store.conn.close()
 
+    def test_unicode_separators_in_abstract_survive_audit_and_import(self):
+        for separator in ('\u0085', '\u2028', '\u2029'):
+            with self.subTest(separator=repr(separator)), tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
+                root = Path(tmp)
+                abstract = 'First paragraph' + separator + 'Second paragraph'
+                result = self.collect(root / 'source', {
+                    'venues/icml/icml2025.jsonl': [self.row(abstract=abstract)]})
+                path = Path(result['files'][0]['file'])
+                data = path.read_bytes()
+                self.assertIn(separator.encode(), data)
+                self.assertEqual(data.count(b'\n'), 1)
+                db = root / 'db.sqlite'
+                store = Store(db)
+                store.conn.close()
+                inventory = root / 'source/public-openreview-inventory.json'
+                before = audit(db, inventory, root / 'before.json')
+                self.assertEqual(before['status'], 'ready_for_serial_import')
+                self.assertEqual(before['records_checked'], 1)
+                ingest_file(db, path)
+                after = audit(db, inventory, root / 'after.json')
+                self.assertEqual(after['status'], 'ready_for_serial_import')
+                self.assertEqual(after['existing_same_edition_attempts'], 1)
+                store = Store(db)
+                try:
+                    self.assertEqual(store.conn.execute(
+                        'SELECT abstract FROM source_records').fetchone()[0], abstract)
+                finally:
+                    store.conn.close()
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()