On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:49:28 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: >> 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. > > This is a non sense. The purpose of a diacritical mark is to make a > letter a different letter. If a tool is supposed to match an ô, there is > absolutely no reason to match something else.
I'm glad that you know so much better than Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines. When I search for "mispealled" Google gives me: Showing results for misspelled Search instead for mispealled But I see now that this is nonsense and there is *absolutely no reason* to match something other than the ecaxt wrods I typed. Perhaps you should submit a bug report to Google: "When I mistype a word, Google correctly gives me the search results I wanted, instead of the wrong results I didn't want." -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list