> -----Original Message----- > From: Edward H Trager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Rick Cameron wrote: > > > The Win32 API includes a function that can do this folding, > on Windows > > NT/2000/XP: LCMapString, with the option > LCMAP_SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE or > > LCMAP_TRADITIONAL_CHINESE. > > > > I know little about Chinese, but I have the impression that > it is much > > more common for several traditional characters to correspond to one > > simplified character than vice versa. If that's true, it > seems to me > > that it would make most sense to fold to simplified. > > > > - rick > > Hmmm ... Suppose I'm searching for some relatively obscure > traditional character that occurs mostly in Wen Yen (u+6587 > u+8A00 : Classical > Chinese) and has a very specific meaning in Classical > Chinese. This character gets "folded" or "mapped" to a > fairly common character in modern bai hua (u+767D u+8BDD) > Chinese, and then the search proceeds. The result set > contains hundreds or thousands of irrelevant results related > to the modern meaning, and I still have to sift through them > looking for the needles in the haystack. I'll try to provide > a concrete example once I think of one ... it's been a long > time since I studied Classical Chinese. >
One solution would be for the user to indicate whether she wanted simplified/traditional folding to be done. - rick
