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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Using a comparison tool from ICU the two strings resulted in different character numbers<br>Words to compare<br>يَسُوعَ<br>يسوع<br>Which is the Name of JESUS Christ in Arabic but one is shaped and the other isn't<br><br>Words converted to HEX Format<br>\u064a \u064e \u0633 \u064f \u0648 \u0639 \u064e <br>\u064a \u0633 \u0648 \u0639 <br><br>That's why search engines of some frontends doesn't come with any results for not shaped words<br><br>The suggestion is to make the index contain the shaped words plus the same words without shaping<br><br>Comparison Tool link https://ssl.icu-project.org/icu-bin/scompare<br><br>Note: to clarify the meaning of shaping, shaping is the usage of Characters like the following ( ٌ ُ ٍ َ ْ ً ) <br>these special characters are shapes, and may change the whole word meaning and help in correct reading, but as mentioned before, it make reading harder and make problem with search functions<br><br>Note: And Bible search normally without problems, but the desktop programs like Xiphos and Bible Time have this problem<br><br>Pola<br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">I think Arabic shapes add extra Unicode characters that's why the 2 same words - i mentioned before - don't give the same results<br><br>------------------<br><div><span style="font-family:Arial">Any Arabic search problem is unconnected to shaping. <br><br>Modules are routinely created and stored in a normalised format, user entries, e.g. for search ate equally normalised<br></span><br></div> </div></div> </div></body>
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