Re: Accentuated and non-English letters
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 44943
interpreted = N
texte = Frank Nordberg wrote: > Does anybody know of a simple and - above all - reliable way to use > letters like é, ø, ß etc. etc. in WebCat searches?AFAIK, there is none, since there is no standard way to enter such characters. This is the toughest part of i18n (internationalization), since the original ASCII characters were based on only characters available on a typewriter. UNICODE is intended to permit the arbitrary coding of all available character sets, but it is slightly beyond the capability of most programmers right now to get a handle on it.> > If somebody searches for - say Händel, the server receives the ä as any > of a number of ascii codes depending on the visitor's OS, his/her > browser, the computers the request has been routed through and probably > the moon phase and the average mid-day temperature in Kuala Lumpur the > previous month.Have you tried specifying a character set for the page, so that at least the browser will try and send characters roughly corresponding to the same thing every time? I would also recommend storing your search terms in unaccented form as well as accented form, and perform a group search (grep is your friend here). Personally, I can tell you that if I was searching for music by Handel, I would not use the germanic form of his name when searching. IMHO, you are worrying about a non-topic.That being said, you should try and talk to the European members of our little band (Nitai???) for how they do international site coding...John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Frank Nordberg wrote: > Does anybody know of a simple and - above all - reliable way to use > letters like é, ø, ß etc. etc. in WebCat searches?AFAIK, there is none, since there is no standard way to enter such characters. This is the toughest part of i18n (internationalization), since the original ASCII characters were based on only characters available on a typewriter. UNICODE is intended to permit the arbitrary coding of all available character sets, but it is slightly beyond the capability of most programmers right now to get a handle on it.> > If somebody searches for - say Händel, the server receives the ä as any > of a number of ascii codes depending on the visitor's OS, his/her > browser, the computers the request has been routed through and probably > the moon phase and the average mid-day temperature in Kuala Lumpur the > previous month.Have you tried specifying a character set for the page, so that at least the browser will try and send characters roughly corresponding to the same thing every time? I would also recommend storing your search terms in unaccented form as well as accented form, and perform a group search (grep is your friend here). Personally, I can tell you that if I was searching for music by Handel, I would not use the germanic form of his name when searching. IMHO, you are worrying about a non-topic.That being said, you should try and talk to the European members of our little band (Nitai???) for how they do international site coding...John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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