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dw_suggestions2010-02-02 04:10 pm
make search respect umlauts
Title:
make search respect umlauts
Area:
journal search
Summary:
Treat ä/ö/ü and other vowel 'variants' as different characters from a/o/u in the journal search.
Description:
Contrary to popular opinion, the special vowel (and sometimes also consonant) thingies in other languages (thingies is the technical term, really!) are not just fancy versions with a few dots or lines added, but different characters. I only know some things about German, but ä/ö/ü can be written as ae/oe/ue, but not as a/o/u.
I am sure people with knowledge about linguistics are getting a high blood pressure by now, but I really don't know a lot of these things. But what I know is that when I search for "Münster" in the journal search having 75% of the results be about The Munsters the Irish province is not exactly helpful and confusing at first because it's not the word I searched for. If there is any way this can be separated, it would be much appreciated.
Downside being that some people just write ä/ö/ü as a/o/u because they don't know how to do it on their keyboard. I used to type on an American keyboard and just learned the [Alt]+[numbers] combinations, but maybe that's just not widespread.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
20 (46.5%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (16.3%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
8 (18.6%)
(I have no opinion)
8 (18.6%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
no subject