On dim, 2002-03-10 at 04:34, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Brion L. Vibber wrote:
On ven, 2002-03-08 at 09:20, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Really? There are kanji in articles about Japan?
Yeeessss.... You have such a difficult time accepting this. :)
For the matter of implementing the search engine, Latin search and
Kanji search could be two different functions. Just like image search
(Google style) is a third function and mathematic equations search
could be a fourth kind of search, once LaTeX support is integrated in
Wikipedia. To me, the kanji is just like images and I have no
keyboard to input that in the search window anyway.
The English Wikipedia might implement all three searches, but the
Norwegian and German ones might only need the Latin search (until a
significant number of German Wikipedia pages have kanji, images or
equations in them).
Perhaps this separation of implementations can help us get forward?
I still have no advice for the non-Latin Wikipediae.
Well, my point is that there is no need whatsoever to make these
separate functions. They work 100% THE SAME WAY. You put in text, it
munges it a bit to make non-ASCII characters behave, and searches for
it. No images involved.
No great hardship to the person who never types a kanji. (Or an
o-with-umlaut!)
No reason to make them separate.
The English
wikipedia isn't just for English monolinguals, is it?
Is this the new politically correct term for Americans? :-)
:)
-- brion vibber (brion @
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