strtr() is sufficient.** Current LC is based on it. 2011/6/10 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
> There's a problem which is familiar to people who use non-Latin > alphabets in computers is that they sometimes forget to switch the > keyboard layout and type a whole word or even a sentence of gibberish > until they notice it. For example, people who use a Cyrillic keyboard > may search Google for "цшлшзувшф", when they actually meant to search > for "wikipedia", and vice versa - "dbrbgtlbz" when they meant > "википедия" (that's "wikipedia" in Russian). The Google search engine > is aware of it for a few years now and often automatically searches > for the desired term in a DWIM manner. > > Wikipedia's own search engine is not aware of it yet. A user in the > Hebrew Wikipedia had this idea: Maybe LanguageConverter can be used > for it? Common keyboard layouts can be mapped to each other, like the > two Serbian alphabet are mapped to each other today, and > Special:Search is already aware of LanguageConverter. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
