My argument is simple & straightforward.
When you hide diacritics, you ought not to be hiding punctuation marks.
Why is this so contentious?
In what world does how a module displays require that punctuation be hidden?
A quotation mark is not an accent!
David
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 21:06, DM Smith <[dmsm...@crosswire.org](mailto:On Mon,
Mar 17, 2025 at 21:06, DM Smith <<a href=)> wrote:
>> On Mar 17, 2025, at 4:01 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <k...@kleinpaste.org> wrote:
>>
>> That is, if search success depends on the specificity of whether accents or
>> points are enabled, you're probably doing something wrong.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> What we are discussing is whether an apostrophe should be stripped out or
> not. The apostrophe on the keyboard is U+0027. The apostrophe in the Greek is
> recommended to be U+2019. They look nearly the same. There are a few other
> Unicode apostrophes that have the same appearance.
>
> If the apostrophe isn’t stripped out, then the user input and the text have
> to agree on which of the several it is. There is no way for the end user to
> know which. I end up copying from the text to make sure I have the right one.
>
> I believe the same filter that turns on and off the display of accents is
> used for searching. David is suggesting that the filter is taking out
> legitimate level 2 quotation marks from the display when it shouldn’t. I’m
> suggesting that it needs to remove them for the sake of the search.
>
> DM
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