search can not identify names which are nor Unicode normalized
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1gangleri
Please search for Herta Müller.
q=Herta+Mu%CC%88ller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Herta+Mu%CC%88ller where the Unicode Character 'COMBINING DIAERESIS' (U+0308) unicode/char/0308/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0308/index.htm is used.
However author/mllerherta&norefer=2 http://www.librarything.com/author/mllerherta&norefer=2 is in the system.
This bug also affects combine.php .
However I am interested in knowing how such authors could be identified / combined. (There would be a bad idea to use such spellings as main author name.)
Thanks for any advice.
q=Herta+Mu%CC%88ller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Herta+Mu%CC%88ller where the Unicode Character 'COMBINING DIAERESIS' (U+0308) unicode/char/0308/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0308/index.htm is used.
However author/mllerherta&norefer=2 http://www.librarything.com/author/mllerherta&norefer=2 is in the system.
This bug also affects combine.php .
However I am interested in knowing how such authors could be identified / combined. (There would be a bad idea to use such spellings as main author name.)
Thanks for any advice.
3gangleri
q=Herta+M*ller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Herta+M*ller
finds
author/muumlllerherta http://www.librarything.com/author/muumlllerherta&norefer=1 and matildefracllerherta http://www.librarything.com/author/matildefracllerherta&norefer=1
The first one is what I would call a « premium » spelling variant because it is using « ouml » and the character si not lost. I assume that due to historical reasons characters not belonging to the Unicode Characters in the Basic Latin Block unicode/block/basic_latin/list.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/basic_latin/list.htm where ignored.
This way all the variants
Herta Müller (using the Unicode Character 'COMBINING DIAERESIS' (U+0308))
Herta Möller
Herta Müller
Herta Møller
generate the same author name author/mllerherta http://www.librarything.com/author/mllerherta&norefer=1 .
I assumed first that search is a kind of reverse engineering technique; a kind of guessing:
Erik Möller q=Erik+M%C3%B6ller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Erik+M%C3%B6ller
Erik Müller q=Erik+M%C3%BCller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Erik+M%C3%BCller
Erik Møller q=Erik+M%C3%B8ller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Erik+M%C3%B8ller
But they do not show the same result: Only the first findsauthor/mllererik&norefer=1 http://www.librarything.com/author/mllererik&norefer=1 where all three spelling variants are available.
So the code seems to be more complex.
finds
author/muumlllerherta http://www.librarything.com/author/muumlllerherta&norefer=1 and matildefracllerherta http://www.librarything.com/author/matildefracllerherta&norefer=1
The first one is what I would call a « premium » spelling variant because it is using « ouml » and the character si not lost. I assume that due to historical reasons characters not belonging to the Unicode Characters in the Basic Latin Block unicode/block/basic_latin/list.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/basic_latin/list.htm where ignored.
This way all the variants
Herta Müller (using the Unicode Character 'COMBINING DIAERESIS' (U+0308))
Herta Möller
Herta Müller
Herta Møller
generate the same author name author/mllerherta http://www.librarything.com/author/mllerherta&norefer=1 .
I assumed first that search is a kind of reverse engineering technique; a kind of guessing:
Erik Möller q=Erik+M%C3%B6ller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Erik+M%C3%B6ller
Erik Müller q=Erik+M%C3%BCller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Erik+M%C3%BCller
Erik Møller q=Erik+M%C3%B8ller http://www.librarything.com/search_author.php?q=Erik+M%C3%B8ller
But they do not show the same result: Only the first findsauthor/mllererik&norefer=1 http://www.librarything.com/author/mllererik&norefer=1 where all three spelling variants are available.
So the code seems to be more complex.
