Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:12:24 -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:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Actually I was wondering if we should use actual words.  So instead of
> > "foo" we could use "elephant" for asciiword and "Éléphant" (french) for
> > word.  And for the hword, "sous-espèces" (which appears on the French
> > Wikipedia) would do.
> 
> Hmm ... I see a potential problem with that, which is that if someone
> happened to be viewing the page on something that dropped the accents,
> or even just made them too small to be easily readable, the examples
> wouldn't make any sense at all.
> 
> I have no problem with "elephant" as a sample asciiword, but for the
> sample non-ascii word I'd suggest something that (a) is clearly not
> English and (b) as much as possible, everybody knows has an accent.
> At least in large parts of the US, something like "mañana" would
> work nicely.

OK I went with that.  I also used real spanish hyphenated words in the
hword examples.  I also changed the domains foo.com to example.com, just
because I'm anal enough to do it.

The hword_asciipart I'm not 100% sure about.  I used this:

	militar in the context político-militar, or postgresql in the
	context postgresql-beta1

What I wanted to emphasize here is that it's the "ascii-ness" of the
part that matters, not that of the complete token.  The reason I'm not
sure about it is that it makes the table wider.

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