[sword-devel] Search bug & New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

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Addendum: Shaping happens at the level of the display and font engines, which explains the often vast differences between front-ends wrt complex scripts, and the dependence on obscure fonts for some less common scripts which require shaping, e.g Indic scripts. 

Peter
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From: "refdoc at gmx.net" <refdoc at gmx.net>
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Subject: [sword-devel] Search bug & New Arabic Bible, Not  Shaped SVD Version
Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2012 13:12
Any Arabic search problem is unconnected to shaping. 

Modules are routinely created and stored in a normalised format, user entries, e.g. for search ate equally normalised

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From: "David Haslam" <dfhmch at googlemail.com>
To: <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
Subject: [sword-devel] Search bug & New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version
Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 17:12


Pola wrote, "The permanent solution is to make search indexes ignore all
Arabic shapes"

Indeed, this would be true for all similar scripts that used glyph shaping.
Not just those in the Arabic/Persian family either.

The fundamental problem has been identified and described. 
We really do need a permanent solution, not an /ad hoc/ workaround.

This is something for the expert programmers in our community to give
attention to.

David






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