On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:26, wrote:
>
> In https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8445 I had to insert
> quote marks into peoples searches in order to make them work for
> Chinese... (one more point in the quote/apostrophe mess.)
>
> This is the same idea we would like to use and seems
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Unless you cut and paste a term containing a fancy character from
> another window, but the page uses the plain character...
Yeah, I know. But my point is made and understood: think through the
reasons for each equivalence, rather than automat
2009/6/23 Brion Vibber :
> Steve Bennett wrote:
>> So, apostrophe (U+0027) -> curved right single quote (U+2019): yes, probably.
>> The other way around...probably not, unless that U+2019 exists on any
>> keyboards.
>>
>> Hyphen-minus (U+002D) -> em dash (U+2014): I would say no. If you
>> search
Steve Bennett wrote:
> So, apostrophe (U+0027) -> curved right single quote (U+2019): yes, probably.
> The other way around...probably not, unless that U+2019 exists on any
> keyboards.
>
> Hyphen-minus (U+002D) -> em dash (U+2014): I would say no. If you
> search for "clock-work", you probably d
Steve Bennett wrote:
> I think you have to be mindful of the original goal here: for each
> character a user is likely to enter from their keyboard in the search
> box, what possible range of characters would they expect to match?
>
> So, apostrophe (U+0027) -> curved right single quote (U+2019):
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Neil Harris wrote:
>> Regarding dashes and hyphens, I've now found my original data set, and
>> a quick inspection gives this set of various similar-looking Latin
>> hyphens, dashes and minus signs:
>> U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
>> U+2010 HYPHEN
>> U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPH
> "JZ" == Jaska Zedlik writes:
JZ> The one problem which is left, is how to integrate this into
JZ> MediaWiki and enable search compatibility for different apostrophes?
In https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8445 I had to insert
quote marks into peoples searches in order to make th
Thanks to everybody for the replies. The one problem which is left, is how
to integrate this into MediaWiki and enable search compatibility for
different apostrophes? Will the solution with overriding the
stripForSearch() function in the local language class be good for this?
zedlik
On Sat, Jun 20
Mike.lifeguard wrote:
> Speaking of AntiSpoof, there is a freshly-opened bug that could use
> attention: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19273
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
Unless the normalization code has changed radically since I first wrote
it, this should not be an issue with the n
Speaking of AntiSpoof, there is a freshly-opened bug that could use
attention: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19273
Thanks,
-Mike
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 10:39 +0100, Neil Harris wrote:
> Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > 2009/6/20 Jaska Zedlik :
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009
Neil Harris wrote:
>
> Regarding dashes and hyphens, I've now found my original data set, and
> a quick inspection gives this set of various similar-looking Latin
> hyphens, dashes and minus signs:
> U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
> U+2010 HYPHEN
> U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
> U+2012 FIGURE DASH
> U+2013
Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> 2009/6/20 Neil Harris :
>
>> Neil Harris wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Dunbar wrote:
>>>
>>>
2009/6/20 Jaska Zedlik :
> Hello,
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 20:31, Rolf Lampa wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> Jaska Zedlik
2009/6/20 Neil Harris :
> Neil Harris wrote:
>> Andrew Dunbar wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/6/20 Jaska Zedlik :
>>>
>>>
Hello,
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 20:31, Rolf Lampa wrote:
> Jaska Zedlik skrev:
> <...>
>
>
>> The code of the override function is the following:
Neil Harris wrote:
> Andrew Dunbar wrote:
>
>> 2009/6/20 Jaska Zedlik :
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 20:31, Rolf Lampa wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
Jaska Zedlik skrev:
<...>
> The code of the override function is the following:
>
Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> 2009/6/20 Jaska Zedlik :
>
>> Hello,
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 20:31, Rolf Lampa wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Jaska Zedlik skrev:
>>> <...>
>>>
The code of the override function is the following:
function stripForSearch( $string ) {
$s = $string;
>>
2009/6/20 Jaska Zedlik :
> Hello,
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 20:31, Rolf Lampa wrote:
>
>> Jaska Zedlik skrev:
>> <...>
>> > The code of the override function is the following:
>> >
>> > function stripForSearch( $string ) {
>> > $s = $string;
>> > $s = preg_replace( '/\xe2\x80\x99/', '\'', $s )
Hello,
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 23:28, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Jaska Zedlik wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> There are different apostrophe signs exist. Let's consider 2 of them:
>> U+0027 and U+2019. They have the same meaning and both of them are
>> acceptable and apostrophes for the English language, for i
Hello,
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 20:31, Rolf Lampa wrote:
> Jaska Zedlik skrev:
> <...>
> > The code of the override function is the following:
> >
> > function stripForSearch( $string ) {
> > $s = $string;
> > $s = preg_replace( '/\xe2\x80\x99/', '\'', $s );
> > return parent::stripForSearch
Jaska Zedlik wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There are different apostrophe signs exist. Let's consider 2 of them:
> U+0027 and U+2019. They have the same meaning and both of them are
> acceptable and apostrophes for the English language, for instance. The
> problem is that MediaWiki internal search distinguishes
Jaska Zedlik skrev:
<...>
> The code of the override function is the following:
>
> function stripForSearch( $string ) {
> $s = $string;
> $s = preg_replace( '/\xe2\x80\x99/', '\'', $s );
> return parent::stripForSearch( $s );
> }
I'm not a PHP programmer, but why using the extra assignment
Hi!
There are different apostrophe signs exist. Let's consider 2 of them:
U+0027 and U+2019. They have the same meaning and both of them are
acceptable and apostrophes for the English language, for instance. The
problem is that MediaWiki internal search distinguishes these two
apostrophes and the
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