tessedit_char_whitelist not working for euro symbol

[Daniël Vos]

Hi all,

I'm having some trouble reading receipts using tesseract. For my specific use case I have defined a file letters under /tessdata with the following contents:

tessedit_char_whitelist abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,.0123456789:-#/€$%

Then when I call tesseract as follows, the result file never contains euro symbols:

tesseract kobalt.jpg result -l nld letters

It is strange to me because running without the config file (tesseract kobalt.jpg result -l nld) does find euro symbols. Am I doing something wrong or does tesseract not support euro symbols in the whitelist? I am running on windows 10 using tesseract 3.05.02.