FW: [icu-support] Index by words and apostrophes

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Mon Dec 4 23:38:55 CST 2006


>The OP also gives an example in English: searching for "lion" as a whole
>word in "The lion's pride" fails, too. I just tried this in MS Word
>2003, and the search succeeds.
>
>This could be trickier than "l'orgueil" since in the latter case, the
>"l" really is a separate word, whereas in the former case, the "s" is
>not.
>
>Perhaps this means that the ICU word break iterator is not a good tool
>to use when doing a search with the "whole word" option selected.
>
>Cheers
>
>- rick

I wonder whether the search in Word will pick lioness when searching 
for lion and whether it finds can't as a word.


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