Issue with Ligatures

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cortig
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Issue with Ligatures

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Hi All,


I wante to report a problem I saw in DVDPedia (and that can possibly affect some of the other Pedias).
French uses ligatures (œ, æ) in a number of words (cœur, sœur…).
If you perform a search typing in the appropriate ligature, the search returns no result (I tested this mostly with Amazon).
If you re-try the search without using the ligature (coeur, soeur…), then you get a result.

I don;t know if it is a problem in DVDPedia, or in the search engines, but for a future version, it'd be nice to try and work around the issue by parsing the ligature and querying for the terms with the separate letters… :-)


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Re: Issue with Ligatures

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Thank you for the bug report. I thought the encoding was being handled correctly, double checked it and it was fine. Turns out that Amazon does not even store the ligature and hence you get no results. All their results are stored as the two letter combo and they make no effort to match it. I have added to DVDpedia that it do the translation automatically when searching. Now in the Beta.
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Re: Issue with Ligatures

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I suspected it was something like that.
The β works beautifully. Thanks a million for that!

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