On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:23:41 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2013-10-28 07:01, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Simply ignoring diactrics won't get you very far. >> >> Right. As an example, these four French words : cote, côte, coté, côté >> . > > Distinct words with distinct meanings, sure. > > But when a naïve (naive? ☺) person or one without the easy ability to > enter characters with diacritics searches for "cote", I want to return > possible matches containing any of your 4 examples. It's slightly > fuzzier if they search for "coté", in which case they may mean "coté" or > they might mean be unable to figure out how to add a hat and want to > type "côté". Though I'd rather get more results, even if it has some > that only match fuzzily.
The right solution to that is to treat it no differently from other fuzzy searches. A good search engine should be tolerant of spelling errors and alternative spellings for any letter, not just those with diacritics. Ideally, a good search engine would successfully match all three of "naïve", "naive" and "niave", and it shouldn't rely on special handling of diacritics. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
