Re: Example non-Latin words for text search parser docs?

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I'm afraid my English-centricity is showing, but I could use a little
> >> help filling in the missing examples in the table here:
> >> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/textsearch-parsers.html
> >> I'm not sure of a suitable example all-non-ASCII-letters word,
> 
> > It's easy to find an example -- I went to the english Wikipedia,
> > searched for "elephant", then clicked on the russian link at the left.
> > It gives you "Слоновые", which I see on my terminal as a series of black
> > squares :-) so there's not a single latin letter in it.
> 
> Given the just-applied changes in the definition of a "word", we no
> longer need a totally-not-ASCII sample word.  But I wonder if anyone
> has a better idea than the f&oslash;&oslash; that I made up on the
> spot...

Actually I was wondering if we should use actual words.  So instead of
"foo" we could use "elephant" for asciiword and "Éléphant" (french) for
word.  And for the hword, "sous-espèces" (which appears on the French
Wikipedia) would do.

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