[sword-devel] GlobalOptionFilter=UTF8GreekAccents

DM Smith dmsmith at crosswire.org
Mon Mar 17 22:26:36 EDT 2025


I mean in the code if that wasn’t clear.

> On Mar 17, 2025, at 10:24 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> Karl, can you point me where in Xiphos I can find search? I’ll analyze it to see the impacts of David’s request. Thanks, DM
> 
>> On Mar 17, 2025, at 9:40 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 17, 2025, at 5:24 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com <mailto:dfhdfh at protonmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My argument is simple & straightforward.
>> 
>> Your argument is that display and search should have nothing to do with each other.
>> 
>>> 
>>> When you hide diacritics, you ought not to be hiding punctuation marks.
>>> 
>>> Why is this so contentious?
>> 
>> Software changes can have unintended consequences. It needs to be carefully considered.
>> 
>>> 
>>> In what world does how a module displays require that punctuation be hidden?
>> 
>> In a world where the filter is also used for search.
>>> 
>>> 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:
>>>>> 
>>>>> That is, if search success depends on the specificity of whether accents or points are enabled, you're probably doing something wrong.
>>>> 
>>>> Absolutely.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> DM
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