[jsword-devel] Searching in German

[DM Smith]

Benjamin Wasty wrote:
> This would definitely be a very nice feature, I think we should add it. I wonder how it works, is there a whole German dictionary included in Lucene then?
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I don't know but you (and anyone else that's interested) can do some 
research on it. For a starting point see: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1166
Maybe we could pull it forward from Lucene and use it earlier than their 
next release.

> By the way, I'll try to get the German translation for BD ready during the next week. Currently there's something broken with the display of the menu bar in my working copy, although I only edited a few property files in JInto (didn't have the time to figure that out yet).
>   

That would be great. Let me know if there is anything you'd like me to 
look at.

In Him,
    DM
> Benny
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>> Datum: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 07:57:51 -0500
>> Von: DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>
>> An: J-Sword Developers Mailing List <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
>> Betreff: [jsword-devel] Searching in German
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>> FYI,
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>> A new capability is being added to Lucene to analyze German words into  
>> constituent parts. The next release, which might contain it, of Lucene  
>> will probably be in about 4 months.
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>> Donaudampfschiff would be decomposed to Donau, dampf, schiff so that  
>> you can find the word even when you only enter "Schiff".
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>> Is this something that we should add?
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>> It has been over 30 years since I studied German so I am not qualified  
>> to answer my own question.
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>> Together we achieve more for Christ,
>> 	DM Smith
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