Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:45:13 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 alex@narwhal.cisti.nrc.ca wrote:
> I've made a quick little modification to allow me to translate accented
> characters down to their low ascii equivalent. Basically it just adds a
> second word to the database with all low ascii characters. This way I
> can still let my users search for accents if they want, but aren't forced
> to enter them.
Nice idea. The only "downside" is the word database gets a bit larger.
However, the solution isn't bad.
> The translation is also hard coded right now :( I was thinking of adding a
> config file paramater such as "translation_table: 123-162=a 183-184=d" etc
> if this feature is useful and so others could adapt it without actually
> changing the code =)
I was envisioning this sort of transformation through a subclass of
HtWordCodec. Then people could specify a translation table through a file.
> I'm by no means a very good c++ coder so any suggestions would be great.
> Is there a better file for me to be modifying instead of htdig/Retriever?
I think the best place for word-related transformations is
htcommon/WordList.cc
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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