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> Would you also match it with α? I have no idea. I don't speak Greek, and I am not familiar enough with its alphabet. The question, I suppose, is if there's a
by scbrg 6y ago
> Would you also match it with α?
I have no idea. I don't speak Greek, and I am not familiar enough with its alphabet. The question, I suppose, is if there's a reasonable/intuitive enough mapping between the Greek and the Latin alphabet that it would be possible to search for Greek words using a non Greek keyboard. If yes, then I suppose my answer would also be yes - but I'm happy to be corrected by someone who is actually speaks Greek.
My point is that when it comes to things like searching, usefulness trumps purity. I search because I want to find shit. Not because I want to get perfect feedback on linguistic details from my software.
- zajio1am 6y ago> usefulness trumps purity. Usefulness of such behavior is objectionable. Characters with and without diacritics are different graphemes, part of different words. If i search something, i do not want to get plenty of irrelevant results. Just that happened to me few days ago, when i entered a rare word root to search box in Firefox and was surprised that got plenty of irrelevant results because there was common word differing in diacritic marks. Even if sometimes there is a text written without diacritic marks where there should be, it is usually consistent for whole document, so if i search some word that contain diacritics, i know whether to enter the word with or without it.
- enriquto 6y agoI guess we can all agree that there must always be an option to select between strict matches (without identification of different characters) and fuzzy matches, with varying degrees of "fuzziness" (diacritics, case, etc).
- necovek 6y agoI don't think we "all" can ever agree on something "always" being true. I can imagine cases where enough context is available and you can only do the actually usable search. Heck, even Google doesn't give you any option, though I frequently hate that.
- necovek 6y agoThere was a great example from someone above: sometimes you search to _skip shit_ instead. If I am looking for ž, I might actually want to find where it first occurs as opposed to all the occurrences of z which will be many more.