Hi! You might create a custom Analyzer that does the job of replacing accentuated characters with their non-accentuated counterparts. If you apply this kind of analysis to both indexed content and queries, you'll find "La Bohème" with both 'boheme' and 'bohème' as the query string.
there's a sample method that does the replacement part of the job up on the aaf wiki: http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/#UTF-8support Have a look at the analyzer used in the omdb project for a more complete example: https://svn.omdb-beta.org/trunk/lib/omdb/ferret/omdb_analyzer.rb Cheers, Jens On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:49:43PM +0100, Max Williams wrote: > I just discovered the rather handy fuzzy searches, which i can do by adding > (eg) "~0.6" to the end of my search term. So, this does the job (yay), but > i'd still be interested in hearing if anyone else has solved this problem in > a different way. :) > > On 21/04/2008, Max Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a way of being 'accent-insensitive' when i do a > > search? > > > > For example, if i have a resource with the name "La Bohème", and someone > > searches for 'boheme' i want them to find that resource, even though the 'e' > > doesn't have the accent. At the moment, it will only find it if they search > > for the properly accented version. > > > > I guess soundex support for ferret is what I mean, but maybe there's > > another way? > > > > thanks, max > > > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk -- Jens Krämer Finkenlust 14, 06449 Aschersleben, Germany VAT Id DE251962952 http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
