Our web pages are overwhelmingly in English, but we do have academics who
put up pages in other languages and would like them to be searchable. I'm
sure that this is quite common.
Rather than a fuzzy accents search method, why not make the htdig database
accent independent? After all, it is case independent already!
For example:
Garçon -> Garçon -> garçon -> garcon
and 'garcon' goes into the database.
Is this a sensible suggestion? Entering 'garcon' into an English-language
version of (say) Netscape is a lot easier than entering 'garçon', and it
seems reasonable to me that a search for 'garcon' will find not only 'garcon'
and 'Garcon' but also 'garçon' and 'Garçon'.
I would even volunteer to work on a patch myself, but I lack knowledge of
locales, and anything I wrote would probably cause more problems than it
would solve.
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David J Adams
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Computing Services
University of Southampton
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