[sword-devel] French ligatures in Louis SÉGOND’s text

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Just a quick note.  Our lucene indexing code does call all our strip
filters.  The solution and example I provided in my last email was using
lucene indexes.

Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote: 
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>DM Smith wrote:
>> Doesn't ICU have locale sensitive decomposition (or transliteration)?  
>> If it does then why can't we use the language of the module to set  
>> the locale then decompose. This is what we are planning to do for  
>> JSword (it has been on the todo list for years).
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>I don't see anything like this in ICU. I couldn't find anything in the 
>API docs and there's nothing in the locale files themselves.
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>I think our best option may be to tag words on a per module basis with 
>alternative forms and then index the forms as alternates with Lucene, as 
>  your last post suggested. For non-Lucene searches we can normalize the 
>text & search strings via the strip filters as Troy suggests.
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>Someone else would have to provide the code side of things, but in terms 
>of markup, I think we just want to do something along the lines of:
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><w xlit="basic:coeur">cœur</w>
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>And the strip filter (for non-Lucene searches) will just replace that 
>with "couer".
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>--Chris
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