I know it's a coder list. One of those other lists referred me here, so...
On Thursday 29 May 2003 17:39, David Burry wrote: > Ok, the translation for those of you who "just want to search" is: it's > a front end app encoding issue, if it's broken in your favorite app then > that app needs to be fixed! (the way to fix it is by using UTF-8 etc, > but that's more than you need to know if you're not a coder... This is a > coder list though so....) ;o) > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Washburn > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Searching other languages > > > Could somebody translate this for those of us who are non-specialists > and just > want to search the Bible??? :-) > > On Thursday 29 May 2003 16:48, Chris Little wrote: > > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > > > Currently the engine does not do MUCH logic when comparing > > string > > > > in the search. You can operate on the assumption that all modules > > > are UTF8 encoded (though I don't know if absolutely ever module is), > > > > > > so sending a UTF8 steam to the seach method should produce the > > > appropriate results. > > > > Lots of modules are still Codepage 1252. You can use the Latin1UTF8 > > filter (or the logic included in it) to convert CP1252 to UTF-8. > > > > > There will be problems with the fact that some combining character > > > may be represented as a precomposed character, but ask in the search > > > > > > box as a multiple combining character-- this will not match. But > > > basicly, the answer is pass UTF8 text as the search term. > > > > Make sure your search string is normalized according to form NFC. > > (You can use ICU for this. See the UTF8NFC filter for an example of > > how to achieve this.) All modules OUGHT to be NFC already, but I > > doubt they are. So you might also want to use the UTF8NFC filter as > > one of your stripfilters. > > > > --Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel -- Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
