--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "suzmccarth" <suzmccarth@...> wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> >>
> > Doesn't look hopeful. Google distinguishes 'role' and 'r? in
> > English, and Unicode-compliant applications ought to treat

composed

> > characters and equivalent sequences identically.
>
> When I google in French I don't keyboard the accents and I still

get

> search results. I naively deduced from that that diacritics could

be

> discounted in google.

If you google in 'any language', you get far more hits for 'été'
than for 'ete'. If you google for French pages, the two words get
almost the same number of hits. Clearly you'd need to google in
Cree - but it's not an option and there may not even be a language
code for Cree!

> Then I was disappointed to find searching the
> Cree dictionary so difficult.

Google of course is only one application. Is there a standard for
the ordering of the syllables? CAN/CSA 2243.4.1 perhaps? Does the
dictionary comply with this? This may be where the problem lies.
If it's using the Unicode codepoint ordering, the results will be
very unfriendly. The Scandinavians might not be too pleased at
having the untailored Unicode collating algorithm applied either.

Richard.

Richard.