> On Mar 17, 2025, at 5:24 PM, David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > My argument is simple & straightforward.
Your argument is that display and search should have nothing to do with each other. > > When you hide diacritics, you ought not to be hiding punctuation marks. > > Why is this so contentious? Software changes can have unintended consequences. It needs to be carefully considered. > > In what world does how a module displays require that punctuation be hidden? In a world where the filter is also used for search. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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