I guess we might require a bunch of filters.
Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 1 Feb 2016 7:30 am, Peter von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net> wrote: > > What would you decompose/strip umlauts into? As a German a/o/u umlaut should > become ae/oe/ue, but for other languages this might not apply. > > I guess Turks treat their umlauts similar as us Krauts. > > Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 31 Jan 2016 20:29, > Dominique Corbex <domini...@corbex.org> wrote: > > > > There are annoying search problems in French on words including: > > - accented letters > > - ligatures > > > > Here is a sample, the first query show the number of results for > > 'Égypte' with an acute accent, the second without: > > > > $ diatheke -b FreCrampon -s phrase -k Égypte | tr ';' '\n' | wc -l > > 107 > > $ diatheke -b FreCrampon -s phrase -k Egypte | tr ';' '\n' | wc -l > > 498 > > > > Not all OS allow the user to easily enter ligature, so some texts > > have ligatures directly converted to regular letters, others have not. > > > > > > So, for languages based on Latin script, shouldn't SWORD provide a strip > > filter to remove accents and ligatures? What do you think? > > > > -- > > domcox <domini...@corbex.org> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page