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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii |
| Date | 2013-10-31 07:23 +0000 |
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On 31/10/2013 07:10, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:49:28 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: > >>> The right solution to that is to treat it no differently from other >>> fuzzy >>> searches. A good search engine should be tolerant of spelling errors >>> and >>> alternative spellings for any letter, not just those with diacritics. >>> Ideally, a good search engine would successfully match all three of >>> "naïve", "naive" and "niave", and it shouldn't rely on special handling >>> of diacritics. >> >> This is a non sense. The purpose of a diacritical mark is to make a >> letter a different letter. If a tool is supposed to match an ô, there is >> absolutely no reason to match something else. > > > I'm glad that you know so much better than Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other > search engines. When I search for "mispealled" Google gives me: > > Showing results for misspelled > Search instead for mispealled > > > But I see now that this is nonsense and there is *absolutely no reason* > to match something other than the ecaxt wrods I typed. > > Perhaps you should submit a bug report to Google: > > "When I mistype a word, Google correctly gives me the search results I > wanted, instead of the wrong results I didn't want." > I'm sorry Steven but you're completely out of your depth here. Please bow down to the superior intellect of jmf, where jm is for Joseph McCarthy. -- Python is the second best programming language in the world. But the best has yet to be invented. Christian Tismer Mark Lawrence
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trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii bruce <badouglas@gmail.com> - 2013-10-26 16:11 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-26 22:24 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-10-26 20:51 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-26 21:11 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-27 02:05 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-27 13:15 +1100
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-27 09:21 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-26 20:41 -0500
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-26 21:54 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-26 21:17 -0500
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-10-27 03:21 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-10-28 07:01 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-28 14:13 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-28 09:23 -0500
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-29 05:24 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 01:49 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-30 08:44 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 09:08 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-30 16:24 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-30 13:10 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 11:54 -0600
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 11:38 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-30 19:28 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-31 06:46 -0500
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-30 17:56 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-31 07:10 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-31 07:23 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-10-31 03:33 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-01 07:16 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-01 02:00 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-01 09:18 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-29 05:22 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-10-29 08:38 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-29 10:52 -0500
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-10-29 12:16 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-29 19:54 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-10-29 21:33 -0400
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-30 09:19 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-29 15:56 +0000
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 13:17 +1100
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 01:13 -0700
Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-30 15:25 +0000
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