Hi,
Does it also correct the problem of not hilighting the second word (like
in "p�re m�re") or was it another bug?
Someone here reported this problem to me and after applying your patch,
all seems well!
Thanks a lot.
At 13:41 00-03-06 -0600, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>According to Eric van der Vlist:
>> I have applied this patch as well and noticed that it's working for most
>> of the words, but not for others...
>
>I've tracked down another bug which was preventing seach words found
>by fuzzy matching from being highlighted. It was a rather obscure bug,
>related to locale handling.
>
>When you change your locale to one that uses a different format for
>floating point numbers (i.e 0,5 instead of 0.5), then you must change
>any floating point attribute definitions in your config file to use this
>floating point format. This can affect any of the *_factor attributes, as
>well as the search_algorithm attribute, on any system in which the atof()
>function is locale-aware, as is the case on Linux systems where atof()
>simply calls strtod(). Without this change, the floating point numbers
>will be read as integers, so 0.5 will be treated as 0. If htsearch
>thinks the weight is 0 for any fuzzy match algorithm, it won't highlight
>the search words in the excerpt, even though, oddly enough, it did seem
>to find those words. (I guess it would affect the ranking, though.)
>
>The trouble is, when htsearch parses search_algorithm, it allows a comma
>as a string list separator. This is undocumented, and it is unlike the
>handling of other string list attributes. It also makes it impossible
>to specify non-integer weights for fuzzy algorithms in locales that use a
>comma as a decimal point. I hope no one was counting on this undocumented
>feature in search_algorithm, because it's a bug that should be fixed in
>future versions.
>
>So, to get fuzzy highlighting working in locales that use comma instead of
>period as decimal point, you must change your search_algorithm attribute
>definition to use the comma in numbers, and you must apply this patch:
>
>*** ../htdig-3.1.5/htsearch/htsearch.cc Thu Feb 24 20:29:11 2000
>--- ../htdig-3.1.5.accents/htsearch/htsearch.cc Mon Mar 6 13:13:00 2000
>*************** setupWords(char *allWords, List &searchW
>*** 475,481 ****
> // configuration attribute.
> // For algorithms other than exact, we need to also do word lookups.
> //
>! StringList algs(config["search_algorithm"], " \t,");
> List algorithms;
> String name, weight;
> double fweight;
>--- 475,481 ----
> // configuration attribute.
> // For algorithms other than exact, we need to also do word lookups.
> //
>! StringList algs(config["search_algorithm"], " \t");
> List algorithms;
> String name, weight;
> double fweight;
>
>--
>Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW:
http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
>Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
>Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
>
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