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Hi Guys,
I have a problem with some special characters like a ã, â..used in the portuguese vocabulary - this problem happens when I search for a keywords - for instance: Iceland in portuguese is Islândia, if I type Islandia the result of my search is "not found...".
I've to type exactly Islândia to find them and It may limits the search engine, due some people are used to type without ~' etc
Do you have any suggestion to "ignore" this kind of special character or may recommend any code that I may include in my pages?
I would like to make this search in the same way of google.com - it doesn't matter if a type with â or a, if I type Islandia it'll appear all the results with Islandia or Islândia.
PS: I'm not a programmer/system analyst, I'm just like/try to work on this and I've a friend that helped in some tech issues.
Best regards,
Marcelo
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the only easy thing I can think of off the top of my head is to include the alternative spellings (without the special characters) in your image keywords
Rod
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Rod's solution is the best approach. I'll see whether SQLite has a function for matching against the base character, e.g. a, ā and â being considered the same. If not available then I don't see an easy solution.
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Having looked it up, there are strategies to do this with SQLite, but they are complicated and not something we're likely to implement soon. Rod's suggestions stands as your best option.
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