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Martin Porter | 11 Jul 2002 11:32
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MS-DOS Latin 1 / ISO Latin 1


Hi all,

As you may know the Snowball scripts and sample vocabularies are
predominantly in the MS-DOS Latin 1 code set. I now see this as something of
a mistake, and it would be much better if they were in ISO-Latin 1. 

Would anyone be adversely affected if the status of the two codesets were
swapped round on the Snowball site? A response from each reader of this
email would be useful, just as a way of assessing the current size of the
snowball-discuss group.

The Russian and English stemmers would not be affected by the change.

Martin Porter 

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James Aylett | 11 Jul 2002 11:39

Re: MS-DOS Latin 1 / ISO Latin 1

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:32:53AM -0600, Martin Porter wrote:

> As you may know the Snowball scripts and sample vocabularies are
> predominantly in the MS-DOS Latin 1 code set. I now see this as something of
> a mistake, and it would be much better if they were in ISO-Latin 1. 

FWIW, I agree with this entirely.

J

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Tolkin, Steve | 12 Jul 2002 21:47

RE: Snowball-discuss digest, Vol 1 #70 - 1 msg

I am reading "this stuff", but only use English, 
so I didn't respond.
Also this change indeed seemed like a no-brainer.

This might not be directly relevant but in xml we say
encoding="ISO-8859-15" 
This is preferred to the older
encoding="ISO-8859-1" because it adds the Euro symbol
and some more accented characters.

Keep up the good work.

Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Martin Porter | 12 Jul 2002 22:11
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Re: RE: Snowball-discuss digest, Vol 1 #70 - 1 msg


Hi Steve, thanks for the response.

>Also this change indeed seemed like a no-brainer.

What does "no-brainer" mean?

Martin

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Martin Porter | 15 Jul 2002 22:52
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MS-DOS Latin 1 / ISO Latin 1


All changes in place, as discussed

Martin Porter 

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Martin Porter | 12 Jul 2002 13:30
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Re: MS-DOS Latin 1 / ISO Latin 1


Just one reply (from James A.), which suggests almost nobody is reading this
stuff.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and swap ISO-Latin I with MS-DOS Latin I on the
Snowball site. For any MS-DOS Latin I users I'll retain the old Snowball
scripts in parallel with the new ones.

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Martin Porter | 18 Jul 2002 13:49
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problem with Sowball-discuss


I looked at the Snowball discuss archive this morning, and find that all
recent messages have not gone in. The last one to be entered was around the
middle of last month. Strange.

There is nothing I can do about this at present, since Richard is the
administrator, and he's on holiday until next week. But Richard, could you
look at this when you get back? 

Martin

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James Aylett | 19 Jul 2002 21:55

Re: problem with Sowball-discuss

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:49:11AM -0600, Martin Porter wrote:

> I looked at the Snowball discuss archive this morning, and find that all
> recent messages have not gone in. The last one to be entered was around the
> middle of last month. Strange.

For what it's worth, I'm seeing the same problems with Xapian lists. I 
suspect Geocrawler is at fault.

J

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Martin Porter | 22 Jul 2002 13:23
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bug fixes


I have fixed three bugs in p/generator.c, the ANSI C code generator. They
are marked 

     <===== 

in the source. They are minor, in that none of them affect any of the
existing Snowball scripts. At some point the parallel fixes should be done
for the Java codegenerator. 

Martin

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