Re: search on accents -> Why not include this function

But the thing is that you must explicity call this function in order to
use it.
Also in order to some stetics maybe you should call it accents_iso-8859-1
The thing is that this should be consider a big need for non-english
languages.

On a major approx also could be possible to modify it in order to accept
parameters to include ('å','à') or ('ca_ES','fr_FR')....

bests,
jaume.


> For the reason I cited above:  it is a too abstract approach for many
> languages and/or applications.  For example in Swedish, a search for 'e'
> should probably include 'é', since most users will not type that in
> explicitly (it's not on the keyboard), but a search for 'a' should
> normally not include 'å', since that it a completely separate letter
(and
> it is on the keyboard).  Additionally, this particular implementation
> seems to be ISO-8859-1 charset specific.  I know a number of accented
> letters that are a lot closer "siblings" to 'd' than 'ð' is.
>
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> Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/