[sword-devel] Soft hyphens - a question about mkfastmod and Lucene search

[David Haslam]

If the text of a SWORD module has words that contain a soft hyphen (U+00AD) what happens to these when the Lucene search index is created?

Are such soft hyphens stripped by mkfastmod ?

My understanding is that words that contain an ordinary hyphen U+2010 (or hyphen/minus U+002D) are treated as multiple words.
i.e. As if the hyphen were a space.

IMHO, the same procedure should not apply to soft hyphens, but at this stage, I'm first interested to learn what currently happens.

Best regards,

David

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