Add stripAccents to KStringHandler

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Thursday 18 October 2007 14:34:20 Josef Spillner escreveu:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 14:08:51 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > In the specific case of Parley, "getting the accents wrong" isn't enough.
> > You have to match other language specificities: for instance, in German,
> > ö is the same as "oe" and ß is the same as "ss" (but not in all cases,
> > AFAIU), but ß isn't the same as β (Greek Beta).
>
> I also think that a more generic mechanism, like stringprep profiles, are
> better than "removing accents" for string matching purposes.
> Other people already care about locale-aware semantic matching, we should
> care about giving it a nice API (to free people from the madness of ICU
> etc.) instead of wasting our manpower to reinvent mapping mechanisms.

Stringprep does make sense.

Qt implements the IDNA stringprep only (a.k.a. nameprep RFC 3491).

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