Attempt to improve the multicharacter detection code.

internal/punctuation/text_processing.go

@@ -47,10 +47,24 @@ func (p *Processor) process_token(token, level string, options TextOptions) stri
 		}
 	}
 	if options.RepeatedSymbols && options.RepeatedSymbolsMin >= 2 && token != "" {
-		char, _ := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(token)
+		repeated := token
+		prefix, suffix := "", ""
+		// Progress bars commonly enclose a repeated run in brackets. Keep
+		// those delimiters under ordinary punctuation handling, and require
+		// the entire interior to repeat so paths and mixed tokens stay literal.
+		if len(token) >= 2 {
+			for _, pair := range []string{"[]", "()", "{}", "<>"} {
+				if token[0] == pair[0] && token[len(token)-1] == pair[1] {
+					prefix, suffix = token[:1], token[len(token)-1:]
+					repeated = token[1 : len(token)-1]
+					break
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		char, _ := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(repeated)
 		if p.levels[level][char] && (unicode.IsPunct(char) || unicode.IsSymbol(char)) {
 			count := 0
-			for _, next := range token {
+			for _, next := range repeated {
 				if next != char {
 					return p.Text(token, level)
 				}
@@ -66,7 +80,7 @@ func (p *Processor) process_token(token, level string, options TextOptions) stri
 						name = i18n.T(name)
 					}
 				}
-				return i18n.Format("{0} {1}", strconv.Itoa(count), name)
+				return p.Text(prefix, level) + i18n.Format("{0} {1}", strconv.Itoa(count), name) + p.Text(suffix, level)
 			}
 		}
 	}