Chinese Character Variants in Search, i.e. 傳传伝, 淨浄净凈, etc.

By Anonymous (not verified) on 8 Oct 2009 at 19:17 UTC

There are many character variants for Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Japanese (Kanji), Korean (Hanja) characters:

http://hkiug.ln.edu.hk/unicode/hkiug_tsvcc_table-UnicodeVersion-1.0.html

They do not necessarily have a one to one relationship. I'm trying to accurately portray old materials, books, publications from the olden days, but still allow people to search via the standard keyboard entries.

If someone types in 台灣, the results should contain 台灣, 臺灣, 台湾.

Would I be able to modify the Drupal search module so that the searching on variant can return results from another? Possibly something via Regular Expressions?

Bonus if it also works with search result highlighting.

Comments

I've put the character

Anonymous (not verified) commented 5 September 2010 at 22:42

I've put the character variants into an table so a combination can be created based on a user's query. Is there anyway I can run a combination function and then pass an "OR" or use regular expression brackets [] into the regular drupal search function?

Hi PeiPei, I would like to

alexii99 commented 2 February 2013 at 15:47

Hi PeiPei,

I would like to know more about your solution years ago, and also any updated solution for this?

Thanks!

I never found a solution, I

Anonymous (not verified) commented 7 February 2013 at 00:09

I never found a solution, I did post the question to D.tw here: http://drupaltaiwan.org/forum/20110317/4991 It's above my skillset unfortunately, though I've been meaning to play around with it.

Hi Pei Pei, Thanks for your

alexii99 commented 9 March 2013 at 04:04

Hi Pei Pei,

Thanks for your reply.
I have tried this one http://drupal.org/project/ccsearch, but it is only for drupal 6.
My drupal skill is not good, after I apply the module and its dependence , the search doesn't work either. Too bad...