[sword-devel] GlobalOptionFilter=UTF8GreekAccents

[David Haslam]

My argument is simple & straightforward.

When you hide diacritics, you ought not to be hiding punctuation marks.

Why is this so contentious?

In what world does how a module displays require that punctuation be hidden?

A quotation mark is not an accent!

David

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 21:06, DM Smith <[dmsmith at crosswire.org](mailto:On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 21:06, DM Smith <<a href=)> wrote:

>> On Mar 17, 2025, at 4:01 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
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>> That is, if search success depends on the specificity of whether accents or points are enabled, you're probably doing something wrong.
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> Absolutely.
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> What we are discussing is whether an apostrophe should be stripped out or not. The apostrophe on the keyboard is U+0027. The apostrophe in the Greek is recommended to be U+2019. They look nearly the same. There are a few other Unicode apostrophes that have the same appearance.
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> If the apostrophe isn’t stripped out, then the user input and the text have to agree on which of the several it is. There is no way for the end user to know which. I end up copying from the text to make sure I have the right one.
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> I believe the same filter that turns on and off the display of accents is used for searching. David is suggesting that the filter is taking out legitimate level 2 quotation marks from the display when it shouldn’t. I’m suggesting that it needs to remove them for the sake of the search.
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> DM
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