[Zope] Re: Zope version 2.3.2

[E. Seifert]

Hi Sean,

Sean wrote:
> The problem there is that when someone tries to actually search for a word
> sans an accent in this case, they wouldn't find a match.  Somehow both
cases
> would need to be indexed...
>
> Sean

You're right. Both version would have to be indexed as German users probably
tend to replace an "a with ae, etc.
IMHO also the stop words will have to be changed depending on language. (I
already compiled a German stop word list if someone's interested.) But this
is another topic.

Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: E. Seifert [mailto:e.seifert@gmx.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 10:48 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Re: Zope version 2.3.2
>
>
> Hi Jean-Louis,
>
> JL BERLIET wrote:
> >> The search has to bring related
> >> results to the keyword, not only results that has it. A
> >> basic feature to do that is to ignore accentuation
> >
> >A patch for "Splitter.c" i'm using with french words to ignore
accentuation
> >! (see the function "sans_accent" and add yours portuguese caracters)
> >Jean-Louis BERLIET
>
> Your patch to Splitter.c contains a mapping for letters that are also used
> as umlaut characters in German which isn't correct.
> You would have to map the German "a to ae, "o to oe, "u to ue, and finally
> the sz ligature to ss.
>
> Greetings
> Eric