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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | A lot of this would be fixed if Ken would just make the program disregard punctuation and diacriticals on names and treat such variants as the same thing. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | But they aren't Gard and how would you propose he do that. For example, Francois Truffaut(CE3K) or François Truffaut, which would you disregard. If you would disregard François, the French will howl with indignation, if you would ignore Francois now you are violating the Rule with fictitious data which is NOT credited.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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Outta here
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,022 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just treat the cedilla and the regular c as if they are the same letter. Done. You don't disregard Francois or François. You treat them as the same thing, which is how it should have been done in the first place. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
Just treat the cedilla and the regular c as if they are the same letter. Done. You don't disregard Francois or François. You treat them as the same thing, which is how it should have been done in the first place. For search purposes: a=â=ä=ã and e=è=é=ë and c=ç and o=ö=ô=ò=ó=õ and etc., etc. It would take some programming, but it could certainly be done. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
Quoting gardibolt:
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Just treat the cedilla and the regular c as if they are the same letter. Done. You don't disregard Francois or François. You treat them as the same thing, which is how it should have been done in the first place.
For search purposes:
a=â=ä=ã and
e=è=é=ë and
c=ç and
o=ö=ô=ò=ó=õ and
etc., etc.
It would take some programming, but it could certainly be done. It could be made an option, in case someone wants to match the form with diacritics only. | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | That would be good too, though probably more complicated programming in order to keep them separate in the online database. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting EnryWiki: Quote:
Quoting hal9g:
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Quoting gardibolt:
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Just treat the cedilla and the regular c as if they are the same letter. Done. You don't disregard Francois or François. You treat them as the same thing, which is how it should have been done in the first place.
For search purposes:
a=â=ä=ã and
e=è=é=ë and
c=ç and
o=ö=ô=ò=ó=õ and
etc., etc.
It would take some programming, but it could certainly be done.
It could be made an option, in case someone wants to match the form with diacritics only. I suppose what you could do is, if the accented letter is typed into the search field, then only matches with the accent appear, but if the letter is typed in then both appear. |
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| Registered: July 15, 2007 |  Posts: 159 |
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