> > Here are some examples showing "name in Chinese" -> "name in pinyin" -> "T9 > > representation": > > > > 刘静 -> Liu Jing -> 5485464 > > 罗喧 -> Luo Xuan -> 5869826 > > 马芳芳 -> Ma Fang Fang -> 6232643264 > > > > The first use case is that it is apparently very common for phone users in > > China to look up names in their contact list using the T9 dial pad. So in > > data from above, if the user clicks '5' on the dial pad, they want to > > perform a search using Tracker to get the results "Liu Jing" and "Luo > > Xuan". When the user then clicks the '8' on the dial pad Tracker would be > > searched again and only return "Luo Xuan". > > > > My customer also wants to support searching for Chinese contacts using > > their Pinyin names. So if the user types "L" using the virtual or physical > > keyboard on the phone, again both "Liu Jing" and "Luo Xuan" should be > > returned. If the user adds an "i", another Tracker search will be performed > > which should return only "Liu Jing". > > > > The other important use for the Pinyin name is for sorting the contacts > > list. My customer wants to sort Chinese names among English names using > > their Pinyin representation. So if the English Names "Matt Compton" and > > "John Doe" are added to the list of Chinese names above, the list of names > > should be sorted alphabetically as follows: > > Please consider that when using libicu for unicode support, it will > allow setting "pinyin" as a collation specifier in the locale being used > by Tracker. This should, in theory (didn't test it), allow ordering the > results of the queries based on the pinyin representation of the input > string. That should also allow looking for Chinese contacts using the > Pinyin representation of the original chinese name. Anyway, I'm not sure > how the T9 representation would work here. You could give this a try, > because it may be enough for your needs (I might be wrong, of course). >
Oh, forgot to paste the link of ICU locale information: http://userguide.icu-project.org/locale And the UTS#35, which shows which are the possible collation specifiers suggested by Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35 -- Aleksander _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
