[Zope] [REQ] Support for multi-lingual components of TextIndexNG wanted

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 08:51:26AM -0400, Andreas Jung wrote:
> - normalization
> 
>   Normalization means the translation of special characters
>   or a sequence of characters to a more simpler form, e.g.
>   'Ä' -> 'Ae',  'ä' -> 'ae', ´ß' -> 'ss' or a more radical
>   reduction like 'Ä' -> 'A',  'ä' -> 'a', ´ß' -> 's'.
>   Such a reduction allows more fault tolerant searching.
> 
> At the moment TextIndexNG supports only German and English.

   What about non-iso8859 languages? How can I create normalization rules
if my language does not have any mapping to latin alphabet?

Oleg.
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