Re: search ignoring diacritics

[Michael (michka) Kaplan]

From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> If you want to specify a search option of "ignore diacritics", would there
> be any reason not to do simply the following>
>
> - normalise both data  and search string
> - delete / ignore all characters with general category Mn


Microsoft in its FoldString implementation would fold certain characters
into others. I don't think the algorithm you give is the best possible one
that can be done.

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/