According to Geoff Hutchison:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > OK, but there's still some fuzzy matching stuff I'd like to attack. Right
> > now, words matched by fuzzy algorithms don't get added to the pattern for
> > excerpt highlighting. Don't know why it's broken, but I'd like to fix
> > that before I start on a new feature: configurable accent maps for accents
> > fuzzy matching. Of course, feature freezes never stopped me before. :)
>
> OK, if you want to do the accent maps, great, I won't touch it. One thing
> I wanted to do with the accent-mapping is to allow some limited
> transforming as well. For example, let's say I have the name Schrodinger
> (w/o) accents. I might want to define:
>
> oe -> o
> ö -> o
>
> (Sorry, I don't know how to type accents on this keyboard)
>
> For the case of single characters, you can just use
> String::replace(c1, c2). Currently, we don't have a method to replace
> multiple characters by one.
>
> However, this feature of accent-mapping need not be done now.
That's what I was thinking of adding. The WordCodec stuff should handle
it, but I don't know how soon I can get around to it (hopefully tomorrow).
Do you think we should allow &foo; entities in the accents_map attribute?
If so, I'd need to SGML decode it before passing it to the WordCodec code,
but that's no big deal.
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