Re: Matching accented with non-accented characters

2006-07-25 Thread John Haxby
Rajan, Renuka wrote: I am trying to match accented characters with non-accented characters in French/Spanish and other Western European languages. The use case is that the users may type letters without accents in error and we still want to be able to retrieve valid matches. The one idea, albeit

Re: Matching accented with non-accented characters

2006-07-25 Thread Steven Rowe
Rajan, Renuka wrote: > I am trying to match accented characters with non-accented characters > in French/Spanish and other Western European languages. The use case > is that the users may type letters without accents in error and we > still want to be able to retrieve valid matches. The one idea,

Re: Matching accented with non-accented characters

2006-07-25 Thread Eric Jain
Rajan, Renuka wrote: I am trying to match accented characters with non-accented characters in French/Spanish and > other Western European languages. ISOLatin1AccentFilter should do the job, though it works with single characters only, so "a umlaut" will match "a" but not "ae". --