[Zope] ISO-Splitter again: German Umlaute

[Joachim Werner]

Sorry, I haven't had the time to look into the Splitter code yet. So that's
why I am asking again:

I don't get the concept of having to specifiy the locale at Zope startup for
the catalog to work properly. What happens if I WANT en_US locale settings
in general, but the catalog should be able to handle French, German, or
Spanish words? How can I build multi-lingual Zope systems with that concept?

Shouldn't the catalog always split words correctly? I am not talking about
languages like Japanese that have a different concept of splitting. Those
need a different splitter code of course. But is there ANY reason why German
Umlauts or other language-specific special characters are supposed to be
splitting characters, other than that the programmers of the original
splitter code might have taken the easy way of making all characters that
are not A-Z splitting characters?

Cheers

Joachim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@zope.com>
To: "Joachim Werner" <joe@iuveno-net.de>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] ISO-Splitter again: German Umlaute


> The ZopeSplitter or ISO_8859_1 should be aware of your locale settings.
> (means check the ZopeSplitter functionality with correct locale settings).
> The splitting characters are somewhat hardcoded in *all* splitters. I
> am  currently working on some Splitter enhancements (e.g. allowing
> to numbers or single characters). These changes will likely go into the
CVS.
> However making these changing visible to the vocabulary (ZMI) requires
some
> more work and any volunteers are welcome to support the work.