OK, but if i understand correctly, LanguageConverter is already integrated with the search engine.
2011/6/10 Philip Tzou <[email protected]>: > 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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
