similar to: Search requests should ignore accents (C++ API)?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 04:33:58PM +0200, Kim Walisch wrote: > I am using libxapian in a C++ project (hence I am using Xapian's C++ API) > and some user has requested that search requests should ignore accents. > E.g. when the user searches for "Herr Müller" he expects that "Herr Muller" > is also a search hit. Simply stripping accents can be a reasonable

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: ? = ae ? = ue ? = oe ? = ae ? = oe ? = aa ? = ss (there are undoubtedly far more examples than those) As a user of an index, I would like to be able to search for e.g. "schaefer" and get matches on both

Anyone know, under Linux, how to get accents (hoping for u with an umlaut, for example) into a comment field? They're happily in the comment file I'm using as a source (or on the command line), but they get translated into # either when I do vorbiscomment -a or vorbiscomment -l (not sure which, but XMMS also sees # instead of the right char, which implies the first). title=Die Sch#ne

I am switching to a composite primary key (string and user ID) from the Rails conventional auto-incrementing integer primary ID. The table is large (2.5 million records) and I''d rather not discard the contents. The composite_primary_key gem doesn''t appear to support altering the table with a migration to do its magic, only creating a table from scratch. So I dumped the table

Hello, I have build a syntax to find out if a given substring is included in a larger string that works like this: d1$V1[regexpr("some text = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9 and this works all right till "some text" contains standard ASCII set. However, it does not work when accents are included as the following: d1$V1[regexpr("some t?xt = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9 I have

I have an openoffice spreadsheet with a column of character strings. Some of them contain accents. I want to read it in R so I have saved it as a csv file using Western Europe (ISO-8859-1) character set (the default, I've tried other sets but it doesn't help). R reads it fine with CharMatrix<-read.csv("test.csv",header=F,sep=",",as.is=TRUE); Say I wan't to

Hello. I want to write my notes in Sweave in my own language (spanish). But my language has accents and when I run Sweave in R to translate my Snw file into the tex file the accents are translated into unrecognizable characters. For example, the word "cami?n" (truck) is translated into "cami??n" Somebody knows how can I do it? One solution I don't like is using a

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Hi, I've a problem with the accents. How do I configure Xapian to ignore the accents in the search/indexes? Thanks, Nuno Mariz

Hello Could someone please direct me to the correct commands for adding accents (grave and aigu) to a letter in a plot title, label, or in added text? I'm sure there's a handy list somewhere, but I've failed in coming up with the correct search words to find it. Thank you muchly! Jen

Hi, I''m pretty sure to have seen a new method ''remove_accents'' in Rails 2.2 but I can''t find it again. Is it me or does this method exists for good ? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"

Hi, I was searching archives, manuals and web to solve usage of fonts with accents in R, but I was not succesfull. Had anybody solve problem with usage of fonts with accents (czech)? Thanks for advice, Jakub Zlamal -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send

Hello, I have a problem with special characters such as "?" or "?" when using hwriter. This only happens when I use windows, it works fine on mac. If I do: print(datosdv) "Ciencias Sociales y Jur?dicas n:74 | 33.94%" but: hwrite(datosdv, p, br=TRUE) "Ciencias Sociales y Jur?dicas n:74 | 33.94%" The bad sign is in the code, is not a problem of the

Hi, I''m working on a french website and I use the Form.serialize method to send the info through AJAX. The thing is that the accentuated letters (é,ê,à, etc.) don''t get replaced by their HTML entities and they get corrupted when retrieving the data. How could I fix that? thanks a lot, Blaise Bernie

I am running into problems with MySQL and lookups. The table has character set utf8, but: mysql> select id, token from tokens where token = ''esta''; +-------+-------+ | id | token | +-------+-------+ | 83417 | está | +-------+-------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) How do I configure things so MySQL doesn''t ignore accents? TIA, Jeffrey

Hello. I am trying to create a text file that contains an accent like '?' in it's filename on a vfat filesystem. This generates an error like the following: "test?.txt" E212: Can't open file for writing I have made a 'modprobe nls_cp850' and 'modprobe nls_iso8859-1' to load those needed modules. Then I mounted my FAT32 partition like this: mount -t

Dear all, there is a R function to remove all accents in strings? best regards. JL [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, my application controller defines before_filter :set_charset def set_charset @headers["Content-Type"] = "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" end Everything is fine and accents are rendered correctly in the browser. However, when I call a controller/action from Ajax (Prototype), the charset is not taken in account and accents are garbage displayed (''?''

Hi all, I have a samba install that is coring dump every time a file with accents on the file name is accessed. Do any one knows how to work around this? I'm using samba version 4. Please let me know if you guys need any more info regarding my install. Thanks in advance. Leon

Hello, I''m having troubles with accents in words I retrieve from database. What I expect is ''Retención'' but what I get is ''Retenci?n''. When I retrieve that info with a Java app it works fine. Is there any solution? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups