SUJET : Search engine request for Chinese characters

For Chinese language, there are basically two variants of character presentation, traditional and simplified. Traditional has been around for thousands of years and is currently used in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Simplified, while existing for hundreds of years, is used by the Peoples Republic of China and Singapore and has less strokes. Simplified was mandated in 1949 to increase literacy.

Can the webtrees search engine look for both simplified and traditional Chinese characters at the same time? Then the searcher does not have to switch between the character set. Google and Baidu search engines will do this as default.

The advantage is that you will not need to enter the Chinese names in both traditional and simplified font in the name field, and then search for them separately.

The second request is this error precaution during a search: Please enter more than one character. For example, the simplified surname 应 gives that error, but the traditional 應 (same surname Ying) does not. I am unsure if this is based on unicode. The unicode for 应 is U+5E94 and for 應 is U+61C9

1. Using traditional and simplified characters, the search results are different.

I think you can implement this function by modifying the program. Regardless of whether the user input is a traditional or simplified Chinese character, it will be converted into a traditional Chinese character for searching.
The following code can do this.
github.com/NauxLiu/opencc4php

2, I am currently using PGV, webtrees is developed from PGV, the same problem also appeared in PGV. This error is caused by the program using js to determine the length of the character, to length>1

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> The following code can do this. github.com/NauxLiu/opencc4php

This is a custom PHP extension.

I think that very few web hosts will allow you to compile and install PHP extensions.

I can find lots of on-line tools that will translate between traditional and simplifed. But I cannot find any dictionaries that I could use myself.

> The second request is this error precaution during a search: Please enter more than one character.

This check exists to prevent search results that contain so many results that PHP cannot display them due to memory / CPU limits.

github.com/fisharebest/webtrees/issues/2234

fisharebest écrit: Thanks for adding an enhancement label on github.
From this 2009 NYT article : Name Not on Our List? Change It, China Says- www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?_r=1I understand now the concern. xmlf shared writing an algorithm on his Chinese PGV site that will display the parents of a search to try to narrow down the number of results. When he migrates to webtrees 2.x from PGV, maybe he can share that algorithm with you.

Sorry, I may not have considered using a web host user. Because I am using vps.
The dictionary is already available in the opencc project.

The opencc project: github.com/BYVoid/OpenCC/

The dictionary : github.com/BYVoid/OpenCC/tree/master/data/dictionary