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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Case-insensitive OpenSearch extension
From:       Brion Vibber <brion () wikimedia ! org>
Date:       2008-01-31 21:17:51
Message-ID: 47A23AFF.10301 () wikimedia ! org
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Brion Vibber wrote:
> More excitingly, it's now easy to swap out this backend with an 
> extension by handling the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
> 
> I've made an implementation of this in the TitleKey extension, which 
> maintains a table with a case-folded index to allow case-insensitive 
> lookups. This lets you type in for instance "mother ther" and get 
> results for "Mother Theresa".

This plugin is now extended to 'go' search exact-title matches with a 
'SearchGetNearMatch' hook, so mixed-case words like 'MacDill' and such 
match more easily.

-- brion

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