Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:08:57 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: Example non-Latin words for text search parser docs?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm afraid my English-centricity is showing, but I could use a little
> help filling in the missing examples in the table here:
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/textsearch-parsers.html
> I'm not sure of a suitable example all-non-ASCII-letters word,

It's easy to find an example -- I went to the english Wikipedia,
searched for "elephant", then clicked on the russian link at the left.
It gives you "Слоновые", which I see on my terminal as a series of black
squares :-) so there's not a single latin letter in it.

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5

In that page they also mention the word "Слон" which looks like "Slon".

> and even less sure of how to represent it in SGML.  (I remember we had
> quite a bit of trouble dealing with accented letters in people's
> names, for instance.)

Yeah, that will prove difficult.

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