Re: TSearch2 / German compound words / UTF-8

Alexander,

could you try tsearch2 from CVS HEAD ?
tsearch2 in 8.1.X doesn't supports UTF-8 and works for someone
only by accident :)

Oleg
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Alexander Presber wrote:

>>> Tsearch/isepll is not able to break this word into parts, because of the
>>> "s" in "Produktion/s/intervall". Misspelling the word as
>>> "Produktionintervall" fixes it:
>> It should be affixes marked as 'affix in middle of compound word',
>> Flag is '~', example look in norsk dictionary:
>>
>> flag ~\\:
>> [^S] > S #~ advarsel > advarsels-
>>
>> BTW, we develop and debug compound word support on norsk (norwegian)
>> dictionary, so look for example there. But we don't know Norwegian,
>> norwegians helped us :)
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I cannot get this to work. Neither in a german version, nor with the
> norwegian example supplied on the tsearch website.
> That means, just like Hannes I can get compound word support without inserted
> 's' in german and norwegian:
> "Vertragstrafe" works, but not "Vertragsstrafe", which is the right Form.
>
> So I tried it the other way around: My dictionary consists of two words:
>
> ---
> vertrag/zs
> strafe/z
> ---
>
> My affixes file just switches on compounds and allows for s-insertion as
> described in the norwegian tutorial:
>
> ---
> compoundwords controlled z
> suffixes
> flag s:
> [^S] > S # endet nicht auf "s": "s" anfuegen und in
> compound-check ("Recht" > "Rechts-")
> ---
>
> ts_debug yields:
>
> tstest=# SELECT tsearch2.ts_debug('vertragstrafe strafevertrag
> vertragsstrafe');
> ts_debug
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (german,lword,"Latin word",vertragstrafe,"{ispell_de,simple}","'strafe'
> 'vertrag'")
> (german,lword,"Latin word",strafevertrag,"{ispell_de,simple}","'strafe'
> 'vertrag'")
> (german,lword,"Latin
> word",vertragsstrafe,"{ispell_de,simple}",'vertragsstrafe')
> (3 Zeilen)
>
> I would say, the ispell compound support does not honor the s-Flag in
> compounds.
> Could it be, that this feature got lost in a regression? It must have worked
> for norwegian once. (Take the "overtrekksgrilldresser" example from the
> tsearch2:compounds tutorial, that I cannot reproduce).
>
> Any hints?
>
> Alexander
>
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Regards,
Oleg
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