On Monday 12 March 2007 08:22, Athan wrote: > "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > If you could save me the trouble of identifying the specific PITS > > pages for each of these... I may be able to see about solving some of > > these (e.g., case-insensitive utf-8 searches) while I'm in the process > > of cleaning up i18n in general. > > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00503 > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00703 > > The worst problem for a documentation tool such as pmwiki it the searching > case sensitivity issue. In a university intranet I'm using pmwiki to > publish more than 8.000 pages of text (ancient Greek literature indexes). > Students complain that they have to search using the exact case to be able > to find all text occurrences. I'm sure you understand the problem. > > As already told before, there are many other issues with utf-8, most of > them with reciepts. Given the fact that most reciepts use single byte > regex, utf-8 issues is something expected. However I know that you cannot > do anything for that, except maybe consider using utf-8 as the single-one > default encoding for pmwiki core.
I strongly support the possibility UTF-8 case-insensitive search. If not possible right now, at least a change in PageIndexTerms() from a hardcoded "strtolower" to a variable that can be customized by a recipe and tested for some time by us. The proposed patch at http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00682 looks really good. Thanks, Petko _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
