On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:11:32 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Gilles Detillieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Dominique Arpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Accents, endings and chaining
>
> According to Lachlan Andrew:
> > Greetings Dominiqu,
> >
> > I have tried to reproduce your problem (as I understood it), but
> > can't. Several possibilities come to mind:
> > 1. You are (as Gilles suggested) relying on the fuzzy rule "accents"
> > rather than explicitly entering the accent into the query. In
> > this case, you are out of luck.
> > 2. Your endings_dictionary file doesn't contain the words with
> > actual accents.
> > 3. Your endings_dictionary has the accents, but encoded as
> > multi-byte unicode sequences. Currently, ht://Dig doesn't
> > support unicode.
> > In either case 2 or case 3, the solution is to replace the entries in
> > your endings_dictionary file with the single-byte latin1 (not
> > unicode) accents.
> >
> > Do any of these cases apply?
>
> Your 3rd possibility brings to mind a 4th one I heard about a few years
> ago. Some ispell affix files make use of "altstringchar" to define a
> sequence of ASCII characters that can be used in the dictionary file to
> represent an accented character. If Dominique's francais.0 dictionary
> uses these, that could be the problem.
>
> There was a patch posted to the mailing list back in June of 2000, which
> added a hack to the endings algorithm to support these, for latin1 only.
> The patch was for 3.1.5, so I don't know how well it'll work for 3.1.6 or
> the 3.2 betas. For some reason, it never made it into the patch archive,
> but it's available here:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05248.html
>
> The only way to know for sure which of the 4 possibilities is the correct
> one would be to look at the dictionary and affix file Dominique used to
> generate the endings database.
Thank you Gilles; it just made it to the patch archive:
ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.5/latin1_patch.0
Better late than never;)
Regards,
Joe
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