From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Example non-Latin words for text search parser docs?
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:23:45 -0400
Message-ID: <16353.1193325825@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 schrieb Tom Lane:
>>> Hmm ... I went and looked at the page on developer.postgresql.org,
>>> and it's just as I feared: with slightly bleary morning eyes, the
>>> accents over the i's are not obvious, and so you have to look *real*
>>> close before you get the point of the examples.
>>
>> By that standard, you will have to use non-Latin letters, which might decrease
>> the usability of the examples much more. There are not likely to be any
>> Latin-looking letters that are not ASCII and are not resembling another Latin
>> letter.
> I think it would suffice to use an accent over a vowel that's not an i.
Yeah, that would help. But the real problem with pol?tico-militar
is that it looks way too much like the English equivalent --- my first
reaction was "huh, he forgot the 'y'". I'm after a word that *looks*
not-English. Alvaro's comment that maybe we need to look to something
besides Spanish seems on point.
regards, tom lane
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