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Re: Arabization requirements



Salam,

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:18:08 +0000, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj
<aalarfaj at gmail dot com> wrote:

> I believe point 3 in particular is going to need an unconventional
> approach to searching. Well all know how inconvenient (sometimes
> downright impossible) it is for us to take into account diactrics when
> searching in Arabic.
> 
> A proper search in Arabic should ignore these completely.

[...]

Although what you are saying is obviously be the most frequent case
(and I agree with you), users should also have the ability to include
harakat and such in the search if they want to.

Regards,

-- 
Youcef R. Rahal