[sword-devel] Normalize the search string (comparing front-end apps)

[David Haslam]

Dear all,

Not all front-ends automatically normalize the search string to Unicode NFC.
e.g.

- Eloquent does
- Xiphos does not

The data is incomplete for this feature in the table in our wiki page.
https://wiki.crosswire.org/Choosing_a_SWORD_program#Search_and_Dictionary

Please would other front-end app developers supply the missing information. Thanks.

Further thought:
For front-ends that also have an Advanced search feature, would it not be a useful enhancement to have a tick box option for Search string normalization?
Then if we do make any Biblical Hebrew modules with custom normalization, search could at least still work for the "corner cases" in Hebrew, providing the user gave the proper input in the search box.

cf. The source text for the WLC at tanach.us is not normalized to NFC, but our module is.
I'll refrain from going into a lot more detail here. There's an issue in our tracker that covers this.

Best regards,

David

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