> From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
>
> > If you want to specify a search option of "ignore diacritics", would
there
> > be any reason not to do simply the following>
> >
> > - normalise both data and search string
> > - delete / ignore all characters with general category Mn
>
>
> Microsoft in its FoldString implementation would fold certain characters
> into others. I don't think the algorithm you give is the best possible one
> that can be done.
To speak further, they do lots of comparsions in CompareString and
LCMapString that can do things like ignore diacritics, etc.
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
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