[CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc
Hi Folks, Looking for help/perspectives. Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user tries with or without diacritics. In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without, so the user gets what they want regardless of how they search. Thanks in advance for any ideas/enlightenment, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc
Something like the jquery highlight function combined with this kind of mapping: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/863800/replacing-diacritics-in-javascript If you don't mind, you can speed things up by forcing the comparison sets to be in one case or the other. --Joe On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tim Shearer sh...@ils.unc.edu wrote: Hi Folks, Looking for help/perspectives. Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user tries with or without diacritics. In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without, so the user gets what they want regardless of how they search. Thanks in advance for any ideas/enlightenment, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc
Hi, Tim. Are you are referring to a find in page, where a user presses CTRL-F in the browser? If so, it will depend on the browser. Google Chrome 2.0 will find matches regardless of the diacritics (i.e. user can type placa and it matches plaça, and vice versa). This doesn't seem to work in Firefox 3.0.13 or IE8. Keith On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tim Shearersh...@ils.unc.edu wrote: Hi Folks, Looking for help/perspectives. Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user tries with or without diacritics. In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without, so the user gets what they want regardless of how they search. Thanks in advance for any ideas/enlightenment, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc
Are you are referring to a find in page, where a user presses CTRL-F in the browser? Yes, sorry to be unclear. If so, it will depend on the browser. Google Chrome 2.0 will find matches regardless of the diacritics (i.e. user can type placa and it matches pla�a, and vice versa). This doesn't seem to work in Firefox 3.0.13 or IE8. Exactly, and FF and IE are the most common browsers we're seeing. I was wondering if someone (I know this sounds crazy) has explored the idea of marking up the non-diacritic inline version of the word in a span styled in such a way as to make it findable but not intrusive. -t Keith On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tim Shearersh...@ils.unc.edu wrote: Hi Folks, Looking for help/perspectives. Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user tries with or without diacritics. In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without, so the user gets what they want regardless of how they search. Thanks in advance for any ideas/enlightenment, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc
This sounds like a great idea for a Firefox plugin... Ken -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Shearer Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:18 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc Hi Folks, Looking for help/perspectives. Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user tries with or without diacritics. In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without, so the user gets what they want regardless of how they search. Thanks in advance for any ideas/enlightenment, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Keith Jenkins wrote: Hi, Tim. Are you are referring to a find in page, where a user presses CTRL-F in the browser? If so, it will depend on the browser. Google Chrome 2.0 will find matches regardless of the diacritics (i.e. user can type placa and it matches pla?a, and vice versa). This doesn't seem to work in Firefox 3.0.13 or IE8. Works in Safari 4.0.3, fails in Firefox 3.5.2 Here's a page to test with, using the correct (non-americanized) spelling of my name: http://www.frbr.org/2009/01/15/hourcle-frbr-applied-to-scientific-data As for tricks to get it to work -- T\the closest HTML tag that I can think of is 'ABBR' which isn't quite right: ABBR lang='fr' title='Hourcle'Hourcleacute;/ABBR ... and a quick test in Firefox 3.5 shows it doesn't help. -Joe (and no, it's not French, but it's a French spelling, so it'd clue the pronunciation for screen readers correctly
