[Xapian-discuss] indexing words with alternative spellings

[Oliver Flimm]

Hi,

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:18:38PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Some languages (e.g. German and Danish) have special letters that are
> often written using two-letter combinations when the appropriate
> keyboard or medium is not available:
> ä = ae
[...]
> As a user of an index, I would like to be able to search for
> e.g. "schaefer" and get matches on both 'ae' and 'ä' returned. Same if
> I searched on 'schäfer'.  Is this something I would need to take into
> account when I do the indexing or?

you have to take it into account both when indexing and searching.

I'm using Xapian in a library catalogue and convert these "special"
character to the two-letter combination - both when generating terms
or postings and when processing user input. 

Regards,

O. Flimm

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