Re: chemistry character set

On 16/03/2018 12:40 AM, Peter of the Norse wrote: I ran into a similar problem with one of my projects; people were using Greek and Cyrillic letters and other symbols to be cute.  It’s all in English, but they kept doing things like using ß for B and ¥ for Y.  And then expecting to be able to

Re: chemistry character set

I ran into a similar problem with one of my projects; people were using Greek and Cyrillic letters and other symbols to be cute. It’s all in English, but they kept doing things like using ß for B and ¥ for Y. And then expecting to be able to search the way they way it looks. So I am doing

Re: chemistry character set

On 15/02/2018 10:19 PM, Hanne Moa wrote: On 2018-02-06 12:51, Mike Dewhirst wrote: Thank you. I think this is where we probably need to go. I asked the original question because I'm hoping the project will reach a tipping point and start to accumulate a growing number of multilingual users.

Re: chemistry character set

On 2018-02-06 12:51, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > Thank you. I think this is where we probably need to go. I asked the > original question because I'm hoping the project will reach a tipping > point and start to accumulate a growing number of multilingual users. We > have our first multinational user

Re: chemistry character set

On 6/02/2018 10:08 PM, Jason wrote: At first glance, I thought this was an easy problem to have, but apparently it is certainly not!  I came across an Oracle whitepaper  that describes how

Re: chemistry character set

On 6/02/2018 10:27 PM, Julio Biason wrote: Hi Mike, One thing that occurs me is that you can override the model save() to update another field -- one that the user doesn't have access. On that function, you will write a new field, say `sortable_name` in which you'll transfor the chemical

Re: chemistry character set

Hi Mike, One thing that occurs me is that you can override the model save() to update another field -- one that the user doesn't have access. On that function, you will write a new field, say `sortable_name` in which you'll transfor the chemical name into something that will appear in the proper

Re: chemistry character set

At first glance, I thought this was an easy problem to have, but apparently it is certainly not! I came across an Oracle whitepaper that describes how to sort your linguistic data, and

chemistry character set

Chemical names start with both upper and lower case as well as Greek characters. Chemical names also exist in multiple non-western non-latin languages. To get lists of chemicals sorting more or less "correctly" I currently slugify with allow_unicode=True. This for example gets tert-Butyl...