[sword-devel] Latin diacritics

[Peter von Kaehne]

The problem becomes interesting with the use of umlaut like characters for other purposes. In Spanish it indicates a glottal stop, but should probably simply be stripped:

sinvergüenza -> sinverguenza

Does French use similar things? Sorry i never learnt it.

I guess a stripfilter for umlauts, one for ligatures and a third for accents might cover it, which need to be called in a particular order. Not sure...

Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 1 Feb 2016 7:30 am, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> What would you decompose/strip umlauts into? As a German a/o/u umlaut should become ae/oe/ue, but for other languages this might not apply.
>
> I guess Turks treat their umlauts similar as us Krauts.
>
> Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 31 Jan 2016 20:29, Dominique Corbex <dominique at corbex.org> wrote:
> >
> > There are annoying search problems in French on words including: 
> > - accented letters 
> > - ligatures 
> >
> > Here is a sample, the first query show the number of results for 
> > 'Égypte' with an acute accent, the second without: 
> >
> > $ diatheke -b FreCrampon -s phrase -k Égypte | tr ';' '\n' | wc -l 
> > 107 
> > $ diatheke -b FreCrampon -s phrase -k Egypte | tr ';' '\n' | wc -l 
> > 498 
> >
> > Not all OS allow the user to easily enter ligature, so some texts 
> > have ligatures directly converted to regular letters, others have not. 
> >
> >
> > So, for languages based on Latin script, shouldn't SWORD provide a strip 
> > filter to remove accents and ligatures? What do you think? 
> >
> > -- 
> > domcox <dominique at corbex.org> 
> >
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