On 6/4/09 2:17 PM, "James" <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> What are you using to do the string matching? depends on the kind of search i need. > For me, I was using autocomplete to search for something stored in a > MySQL database, i think that's a very common scenario. > and MySQL by default automatically matches even those > strings with accents from non-accented characters. according to collation. > It should either be > the script or the database that handles this conversion/matching. if by "script" you mean client script then i can't agree. say i wanted more than a simple search, i want exact matches frist, then prefix matches in lexical order, and finally fuzzy matches in Damerau-Levenshtein order with lexical suborder. the right place for much of that work is in the backend script. btw: if you use a php backend then converting character encodings is very easy.
