2007/1/18, Fabrice Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On 1/17/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Regarding the user-level language now. Perhaps "flying Dutchman" would
mean
> the unstemmed phrase (if supported), and 'flying Dutchman' (single
quotes)
> could allow for stemming. This is not completely standard, but it
doesn't
> break user expectation in horrible ways (as far as I can see).
>
I think it does. Double quotes usually express a phrase search.
My opinion is we'd better leave stemming (and diacritic sensitivity) out
and let
each back-end play its specific strengths as it likes to find the best
matches.


Ok, the basic idea was simply that both '- and "-quoted strings would be
phrase searches. Heuristically speaking " would be a hint to the search
engine to be a little stricter on the matching than a '.

Cheers,
Mikkel
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