According to Karl Beckers: > German has alternative ways of spelling for certain characters. > An A-Umlaut e.g. can be written using a special character '�' > (a\" in the affix file of the dictionary) or ae. > Now, I'd like to find both spellings, no matter what kind of > spelling the user used for his query. > > Is that possible? > I've been looking at ispell docs and can't say I've found much > of a clue. Any pointers from this list? Anybody done this, > or is this a nogo?
For now it's pretty much a nogo. We had talked previously about expanding the accents algorithm to be configurable and to handle one-to-many and many-to-one character conversions, but no one has been able to step up to the plate and implement this. The only alternative I can see at this point is to put all the equivalent words containing umlauts and digraphs together in the synonyms file, but that could get tedious as the matches must be word by word, and not character by character. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
