[V4RB 0000109]: SplitToWords misses apostrophe

Erik Mueller-Harder valentina-list at vermontsoftworks.com
Tue Nov 16 15:49:19 CST 2004


On Nov 16, 2004, at 15:05, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

>>>> If you feed O'Shea to SplitToWords, it comes back
>>>>
>>>> O'Shea
>>>>
>>>> instead of
>>>>
>>>> O Shea
>>>
>>> Well, then I afraid in the index also comes 2 words instead of one.
>>>
>>> We need ask the ICU guys about this.
>>
>> Well, here's an excellent example of why we need to be able to set
>> break characters (and categories).  I, for one, would *absolutely* 
>> want
>> O'Shea to remain intact as one word at all times....
>
> But IBM guys I think are not stupid....

Of course!

It's just that I'm hoping there will be a *flexible* solution, as 
developers' (and users') needs will vary from circumstance to 
circumstance -- by which I mean more than merely locale.

> I think they have solution

As long as *Valentina* will let us have a method to override their 
solution, if need be....

-- Erik



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