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 >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > <mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org> > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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