[jsword-devel] Searching in German

[Manfred Bergmann]

Hi DM.

AFAIK, Lucene from version 2.1 can deal with leading wildcards.
It would find "*schiff".
Wouldn't this be enough?


Regards,
Manfred


Am 06.02.2008 um 13:57 schrieb DM Smith:

> FYI,
>
> 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.
>
> Donaudampfschiff would be decomposed to Donau, dampf, schiff so that
> you can find the word even when you only enter "Schiff".
>
> Is this something that we should add?
>
> It has been over 30 years since I studied German so I am not qualified
> to answer my own question.
>
> Together we achieve more for Christ,
> 	DM Smith
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