[sword-devel] Search for word in Sword

[Adrian Korten]

Good day,

I'd be willing to give it a try and can find some people to help test 
it. Does that mean someone would compile a special test version? This is 
a question from TBS but they are not in a rush for this at the moment. 
IOW, when it is convenient for you then do it and meanwhile I can tell 
them that it is being worked on.

Adrian

p.s. I'm not in a hurry for it either because they have first asked me 
to setup a Linux file-server and e-mail server - both new things for me.


Chris Little wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Adrian Korten wrote:
> 
> 
>>We came up against a small problem with our Thai test module. When 
>>searching for a word whose characters are part of other words, there is 
>>no way to delimit the word. This occurs because Thai has no word breaks. 
>>Somehow, the rtf engine seems to break the Thai words reasonably 
>>accurately on the display of text. However, that same logic does not 
>>seem to be in the search module.
> 
> 
> Like Troy mentioned, we can turn on the ICU Thai word-breaking for
> searches.  This, the option to display with whitespace word-breaks, and 
> transliteration with whitespace word-breaks were actually the reasons why 
> I didn't drop the relatively large Thai dictionary from ICU
> 
> 
>>The only alternative that I could come up with is to place Unicode 
>>characters in as word breaks. Unicode has various characters to indicate 
>>word breaks (non-breaking spaces, hyphenable breaks) invisibly. These 
>>would have to be placed in the actual text module as UTF8 characters.
> 
> 
> You should encode as Unicode recommends, which I assume means no divisions 
> between words at all.  Adding tags like Frank suggested wouldn't help 
> anyway because the strip filters will strip them out before searching.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> 
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