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[TedC]

Neville, I have noticed that, spanning european countries with my searches, there are often character set problems with the catch words etc.

Would it be possible to do a character substitution for the problematic characters on catch and trash words and the return list from an eBay search?

ä=a
é, è, ê = e
ï = i
ö, œ = o
ü, ù = u
ß = ss

And the corresponding uppercases for AEIOU.
And possible a handful of others (I have no knowledge about spanish, for example).

This would at least catch or trash eg. Anais and Anaïs (notice the trema over the i) for french searches.

Best,
Ted

[nev]

Ok I've added it to the list at Misc26
http://www.auctionsieve.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=469#469

[TedC]

Thanks, Nev.

I am not sure I really understand i18n, but I feel this is not what I had in mind. Or you understood me, but I didn't understand your reply ;-)

My idea was to *reduce* from i18n to ASCII for catch and trash words. The effect would be that no matter how sellers write things, with french accents, german umlauts etc. disappear, so that géle, gélé, gèle etc. would all fall into "gele".

Also, this was meant to be only for catch and trash, because for searches, these characters need to be retained: a search for "Muller" won't find "Müller" on ebay.de

I have one to add: ÿ (y-trema) should give y.

Best from France,
Ted

[nev]

Ah - ok, I've added it as Misc27