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"QuickDic" offline Dictionary App for Android. Provided downloadable dictionaries are based on Wiktionaries but can also be created from other sources (see DictionaryPC). Remember to use --recursive when cloning! Fork of project that used to be hosted at code.google.com/p/quickdic-dictionary.
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"alternative spelling" in Hebrew > bug or feature? how to turn off? #92

Closed shula closed 4 years ago

shula commented 6 years ago

When I write חת i receive results for either חט or הת. It is evident that QuickDic searches for similar sound:

ט sounds like ת ה sounds like ח

This deature could be great IF the first spelling is not found.

But instead, the first results shown are the /alternative/ spellings, where in practice the original spelling should be shown first.

Consequently, I can't find the word at all ! type: חתול --> not shown (it's a super popular word). search in English: type cat --> found: חתול, first result, no problems.

rdoeffinger commented 6 years ago

This would indicate that the ICU collation considers these two spellings equal. Working around what ICU considers equal is a bit of a problem. Though as a quick fix it might be possible to simply ensure that actually equal matches have priority over collation-equal matches, I'll have to check how easy that is to add.

shula commented 6 years ago

If it doesn't, is it possible to compare with most basic, simple string match ? (even as an option / settings)

Thank you!

rdoeffinger commented 6 years ago

Things are a bit more complicated than that, since there is the whole searching involved, which needs more than just equality check to be efficient. However after some digging I am not sure that even is the problem. It looks actually more like these words might not even exist properly in the dictionary. I have the suspicion that somehow the dictionary only added the transliterations like khatúl to the index, not the word itself. However this is rather hard to confirm without knowing the language. If you can check if you can find the words you are looking for by scrolling through the dictionary (or quicker, search for a word that should appear close to the dictionary and then scroll to find the word you actually look for) that might help quite a bit. (and please quote the entry if you find it)

rdoeffinger commented 4 years ago

Well, it turned out to be the same issue as lots of similar reports with other issues. Released 5.5.1 with new dictionaries which seems to fix this.