Issue 61819 - No Asian word break iteration in the on-line help is needed for Asian culture.
Summary: No Asian word break iteration in the on-line help is needed for Asian culture.
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Online help (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO PleaseHelp
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2006-02-09 04:59 UTC by tora3
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:29 UTC (History)
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Description tora3 2006-02-09 04:59:36 UTC 
To comply with Asian culture, there might be necessity of changing behavior of 
search function of the on-line help. In short, no word break iteration would be 
needed. If a user want to do that, she does so by manually inserting a space 
character between words to divide them. That is the behavior of google.com for 
Japanese.


A current search function in the on-line help seems to work in the following way: 

  1. Divides a search-for text into several words using a word break iterator 
     for user's language.

  2. Looks for the individual words.

  3. Lists titles of the page that includes at least one of the words.

  4. Highlights those words in the chosen page.

Since Asian texts usually do not includes a white space between words, nobody 
has been noticed such the fact that a search-for text is divided into some words.

The necessity of dividing a get-searched text into words for Asian culture 
should be carefully considered.
Comment 1 tora3 2006-02-09 05:16:09 UTC 
With current implementation of OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 Japanese, 
Search term: フォントワークギャラリ within Writer finds the on-line help pages that 
includes the following words:
  フォントワーク
  ギャラ
  リ

That is not an expected behavior for Japanese. Searching for フォントワークギャラリ 
should match only the pages that includes フォントワークギャラリ.

If a user want to look for either フォント for font, ワーク for work, ギャラリ for 
galley, she should fill the Search term text box with フォント ワーク ギャラリ.
Every words should be separated with one of more space letters, including u3000 
known as an IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE, in the similar way as Western culture does.

That is a common manner used by well-known Internet search engines such as 
Google and Yahoo!.
Comment 2 Olaf Felka 2006-02-09 08:23:55 UTC 
@kla: Something for you?
Comment 3 Olaf Felka 2006-02-09 08:24:50 UTC 
reassigned
Comment 4 kla 2006-02-10 14:06:37 UTC 
-> Ufi: seem to be yours.
Comment 5 Uwe Fischer 2006-02-10 14:32:55 UTC 
This looks like a defect in Help Viewer's search engine
Comment 6 tora3 2006-02-11 01:17:41 UTC 
Thank you for considering this topic.

  To avoid confusion, just one thing should be added:

    An Western style of word break iteration is still needed, but no Asian one.
Comment 7 andreas.bille 2006-06-16 15:09:28 UTC 
accepted
Comment 8 andreas.bille 2007-04-04 13:38:07 UTC 
ABI->AB: As discussed ...
Comment 9 grsingleton 2007-04-04 16:14:05 UTC 
This issue is similar to http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23693
Comment 10 ab 2007-04-18 10:34:07 UTC 
STARTED
Comment 11 grsingleton 2007-04-18 14:02:54 UTC 
I would recommend closing this as a duplicate of 
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23693
as it is basically the same problem.
Comment 12 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:29:58 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".