Hi Patrick,
Unfortunately, RTL (right-to-left) languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, others) are only poorly supported by BaseX. Various years ago, Masoumeh Seydi from Iran helped us to improve BaseX GUI support for Farsi. Back then, I came to know that most text editors, including MS Office, regularly come to their limits when texts include both LTR and RTL strings.
It would be great to locate a Java developer with theoretical and/or practical knowledge on RTL languages who would be interested in improving BaseX. If anyone is out there who thinks s·he could contribute, please speak up!
Christian
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:20 PM Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net wrote:
I have attached two images, one that shows an unpointed Hebrew word entered in find, and the result as presented in the result window.
Notice the "b" and "r" read right to left in Find, but read left to right in the result. If you switch the character positions in the result it would be correct.
I'm not sure that searching without pointing but returning pointed results is a feature, but it would be nice to turn that on or off. Including cantillation marks (which are a separate category of mark from vowels).
That is:
match exact text as entered
match text if only consonants match (for both vowels and cantillation)
match text if consonants and vowels match but not cantillation
match text if some consonants, some vowels, or some cantillation
matches (yes, I know about regexes but I can either ask scholars to type in their "find" conditions or I can try to teach them regexes. Which do you think I'm going to pick?
If that's a problem we can always create a XQuery library/pod whatever to keep users from having to type the filters in manually.
Thanks!
Hope everyone is having a great week!
Patrick
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