I mean in the code if that wasn’t clear.

> On Mar 17, 2025, at 10:24 PM, DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> Karl, can you point me where in Xiphos I can find search? I’ll analyze it to 
> see the impacts of David’s request. Thanks, DM
> 
>> On Mar 17, 2025, at 9:40 PM, DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 17, 2025, at 5:24 PM, David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com 
>>> <mailto: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
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