Friday, 20 November 2009

Hebrew Transliterations...

Hi Guys

Thanks for including me in the discussions... I must admit it sounds rather complicated and given my limited (almost no) Hebrew, I'm a bit drowned in the whole lot...

Just a thought for the searching, we can store one form of the word for display, and then for example, automatically remove all the vowels for searching it (or have two forms for searching)...

Ie. we can build our own index-lookup tables for those words. For example, looking up grace could be stored in our index table as
grace | grc
grace | grace

etc.

In some databases, you'd use function-based indexes, we can use a feature of Java DB called generated columns (ie. you insert/update column A and column B gets populated as a result too, with a different form of the word/integer/value)

That will only work as long as we can identify vowels as vowels, which didn't sound too complicated from your posts...

Chris

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