Eike, On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Eike Hein <h...@kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi, > > we currently have numerous dynamic search fields across KDE > apps that, for performance reasons, disregard input shorter > than a particular QString::length(). Examples are KMail and > some things in KRunner. It's a common pattern. > > This is very English-centric behavior; many scripts are > more complex than this, in particular CJK ones. In Korean, > a single character may be composed of multiple letters and > form a complex syllable. Most Korean given names are two > characters, many useful words are only one character. > The situation in Japanese is similar - it's written using > a mix of syllabaries and ideograms. The check for 3 has > good intentions but breaks real use cases for these users, > such as finding mail by name. > > Addressing this algorithmically is not all that hard. When > normalizing to Unicode NFD, those complex Korean characters > turn into a sequence of combining characters for the indi- > vidual letters. Syllabic and ideographic code points are > assigned the character class Lo in Unicode, which is info > available via QChar. An NFD pass + counting Lo chars as 2 > would be simple and effective enough for this purpose. > > The way I'd like to see this fixed is placing an API like > isMinimumSearchableLength(QString) somewhere in KF5 and to > start using it everywhere. Realistically developers won't > find this on their own, but it means I could go around and > patch up all these places without copying code around. > That's a great idea imo. > > Which framework would be a good place for this? > Without giving it much thought I would think either KI18n or Sonnet. > > > Cheers, > Eike > _______________________________________________ > Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list > Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel >
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