There is no figuring out that happens with those letters. We (for better or worse) left it up to the translators to provide the search characters/labels. Those buttons are gone in 1.5/2.0 for exactly this reason - they're impossible to get right in their current state for all locales.
Chris On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 04:27, Martin Grimme wrote: > Am Fr, den 30.01.2004 schrieb Yong Sun um 13:01: > > I have a problem to fix in addressbook. In China (I think also in JK), > > poeple's name is different to Westen's, e.g., maybe someone's name is > > 张三, it's phonetic (or PINYIN) is "zhang san". If I push the button "Z", > > I want to show 张三's information. > > > > But the A-Z button not fully valid for Chinese name, some characters > > could be listed correctly according to their PINYIN, yet for other > > characters, they were put to "others" button. > > When you look at the GNOME unicode character map, you can see that > there is information about the PINYIN available for each Chinese > character. Evo could use the same table to find out how to map Hanzi > characters to latin letters. > > This would work well for Mandarin, where a character usually has one > pronunciation and it's quite clear how to pronounce a given name. > But I see a problem with Japanese, where characters have different > pronunciations and it's not always clear how to pronounce a given name. > > Maybe Evo should support a radical based addressbook for languages with > Chinese characters. There could be a switch for displaying the radical > buttons next to the letter buttons and whoever wants to deal with > Chinese characters enables the additional buttons. > Such an additional button bar could be made available for several other > writing systems as well, e.g. Hangul, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Kyrill, ... > > > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
