[sword-devel] Searching other languages

Chris Little sword-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 29 May 2003 15:55:56 -0700 (MST)


On Thu, 29 May 2003 YTang0648@aol.com wrote:

> Also you may want to "fuzzy" search the text. For example. If user type a 
> ascii 'a', you may also want to match accent a in the Bible.

This could be accomplished with NFD/NFKD normalization followed by 
stripping combining codepoints.  (Both very easily accomplished by writing 
a new ICU filter, if one doesn't already exist for this.)

--Chris