[mythtv-users] MythTV vs XBMC

[Richard Hulme]

On 10/05/14 18:05, Sam Jacobs wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 May 2014, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com
> <mailto:mythtv at sky.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/05/14 02:20, Sam Jacobs wrote:
>
>         BSkyB customers would think that—Sky have now even put the
>         search bar itself right on the home screen, and guess how you
>         enter text into it… Mobile phones that still have number buttons
>         still use the method, though. Phones that don’t use the method
>         don’t have the number keys. Imagine how UTTERLY STUPID the
>         designers of a phone would have to have been, if that phone had
>         alpha labels but forced you to use the directional buttons to
>         enter text! Tell me that would not have frustrated the hell out
>         of you.
>
>
>     I have a Sky HD box and must admit the search does work well.
>
>     What you have got to remember though is we have international users
>     so accented characters would have to be catered for.
>
>
> I was reading a while ago about a Unicode feature, I think it was called
> something like lexical equivalence, that I think would be useful here.
> The effect of it in this context is that a bare e might also match è, é,
> ê and so on. I'll try to find it all again.

Hi,

You're probably thinking of primary, secondary and tertiary levels.

Primary compares the base characters (i.e. ignoring all diacritics) but 
ignores case (so e, E, é, É, è, È, ê and Ê etc. are considered equal).

Secondary also ignores case but differentiates letters with diacritics.

Tertiary differentiates based on case.

I think it varies a bit depending on the language but that's roughly the 
idea.  I'm no expert on it but I've come across it before.

See http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation/concepts.

Richard.