Luis P. Mendes: >I'm developing a django based intranet web server that has a search page. > >Data contained in the database is mixed. Some of the words are >accented, some are not but they should be. This is because the >collection of data began a long time ago when ascii was the only way to go. > >The problem is users have to search more than once for some word, >because the searched word can be or not be accented. If we consider >that some expressions can have several letters that can be accented, the >search effort is too much.
I guess the best solution is to index all data in ASCII. That is, convert a field to ASCII (from accented character to its unaccented constituent) and index that. Then, on a search, you also need to unaccent the search phrase, and match it against the asciified index. -- René Pijlman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
