Re: something better than pgtrgm?

Hi, Andrew thanks for replying

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:

> But for the mixed languages case, surely it's not _any_ mixed
> language? Are you mixing Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, and Hindi, for
> instance?
>
We're mixing species names of birds in greek and latin (scientific names),
and all languages spoken in africa, europe and western asia.

>
> If not, then you're not really language unaware, but instead
> constrained by a subset of languages. That is a more tractable
> problem (for instance, you may not have to worry about direction
> changes, which vastly simplifies the problem).
>

I'm not very knowledgeable about scripts around the world, but i am afraid
that the above list does include scripts that read from right to left.

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