Re: Re: Accents, endings and chaining

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:11:32 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Gilles Detillieux <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Dominique Arpin <[email protected]>,
     [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Accents, endings and chaining
> 
> According to Lachlan Andrew:
> > Greetings Dominiqu,
> > 
> > I have tried to reproduce your problem (as I understood it), but 
> > can't.  Several possibilities come to mind:
> >   1. You are (as Gilles suggested) relying on the fuzzy rule "accents"
> >      rather than explicitly entering the accent into the query.  In
> >      this case, you are out of luck.
> >   2. Your  endings_dictionary  file doesn't contain the words with
> >      actual accents.
> >   3. Your  endings_dictionary  has the accents, but encoded as
> >      multi-byte unicode sequences.  Currently, ht://Dig doesn't
> >      support unicode.
> > In either case 2 or case 3, the solution is to replace the entries in 
> > your  endings_dictionary  file with the single-byte latin1 (not 
> > unicode) accents.
> > 
> > Do any of these cases apply?
> 
> Your 3rd possibility brings to mind a 4th one I heard about a few years
> ago.  Some ispell affix files make use of "altstringchar" to define a
> sequence of ASCII characters that can be used in the dictionary file to
> represent an accented character.  If Dominique's francais.0 dictionary
> uses these, that could be the problem.
> 
> There was a patch posted to the mailing list back in June of 2000, which
> added a hack to the endings algorithm to support these, for latin1 only.
> The patch was for 3.1.5, so I don't know how well it'll work for 3.1.6 or
> the 3.2 betas.  For some reason, it never made it into the patch archive,
> but it's available here:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05248.html
> 
> The only way to know for sure which of the 4 possibilities is the correct
> one would be to look at the dictionary and affix file Dominique used to
> generate the endings database.

Thank you Gilles; it just made it to the patch archive:

 ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.5/latin1_patch.0

Better late than never;)

Regards,

Joe
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