Le mercredi 30 octobre 2013 18:54:05 UTC+1, Michael Torrie a écrit : > On 10/30/2013 10:08 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > > > My comment had nothing to do with Python, it was a > > > general comment. A diacritical mark just makes a letter > > > a different letter; a "ï " and a "i" are "as > > > diferent" as a "a" from a "z". A diacritical mark > > > is more than a simple ornementation. > > > > That's nice, but you didn't actually read what Ned said (or the OP). > > The OP doesn't care that "ï " and a "i" are as different as "a" and "z". > > For the purposes of his search he wants them treated as the same > > letter. A fuzzy searching treats them all the same. For example, a > > search for "Godel, Escher, Bach" should find "Gödel, Escher, Bach" just > > fine. Even though "o" and "ö" are different characters. And lo and > > behold Google actually does this! Try it. It's nice for those of use > > who want to find something and our US keyboards don't have the right marks. > > > > https://www.google.ca/search?q=godel+escher+bach > > > > After all this nonsense, that's what the original poster is looking for > > (I think... can't be sure since it's been so many days now). Seems to > > me a python module does this quite nicely: > > > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode
Ok. You are right. I recognize my mistake. Independently from the top poster's task, I did not understand in that way. Let say it depends on the context, for a general search engine, it's good that diacritics are ignored. For, let say, a text processing system, it's good to have only precised matches. It does not mean, other matching possibilities may exist. jmf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
