Make prefix matching behave better

It seems to me that we _do_ want to ignore diacritics most of the time.

I've also fixed the fallback.
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Přemysl Eric Janouch 2016-10-23 00:24:16 +02:00
parent 77918d8a8c
commit 2357b67f23
Signed by: p
GPG Key ID: B715679E3A361BE6
1 changed files with 27 additions and 22 deletions

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@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ struct stardict_dict_private
// The collated indexes are only permutations of their normal selves.
UCollator * collator; //!< ICU index collator
UCollator * collator_root; //!< ICU fallback root collator
GArray * collated_synonyms; //!< Sorted indexes into @a synonyms
// There are currently three ways the dictionary data can be read:
@ -409,6 +410,8 @@ stardict_dict_finalize (GObject *self)
if (priv->collator)
ucol_close (priv->collator);
if (priv->collator_root)
ucol_close (priv->collator_root);
if (priv->collated_synonyms)
g_array_free (priv->collated_synonyms, TRUE);
@ -836,8 +839,12 @@ stardict_dict_new_from_info (StardictInfo *sdi, GError **error)
(void) load_syn (sd, base_syn, NULL);
g_free (base_syn);
if (sdi->collation)
(void) stardict_dict_set_collation (sd, sdi->collation);
// We need a fallback collator to find common prefixes
if (!sdi->collation || !stardict_dict_set_collation (sd, sdi->collation))
{
UErrorCode error = U_ZERO_ERROR;
sd->priv->collator_root = ucol_open ("" /* root collator */, &error);
}
g_free (base);
return sd;
@ -933,22 +940,21 @@ stardict_dict_search (StardictDict *sd, const gchar *word, gboolean *success)
BINARY_SEARCH_END
// Try to find a longer common prefix with a preceding entry
// FIXME: this doesn't work well with diacritics, which are ignored when
// reordering but can take us to an entry with a suboptimal prefix
// while searching
#define PREFIX(i) stardict_longest_common_collation_prefix \
(sd, word, g_array_index (index, StardictIndexEntry, i).name)
// We need to take care not to step through the entire dictionary
// if not a single character matches, because it can be quite costly
size_t probe, best = PREFIX (imin);
// XXX: only looking for _better_ backward matches here, since the
// fallback common prefix searching algorithm doesn't ignore case
size_t needed_improvement = !sd->priv->collator;
while (best && imin > 0
&& (probe = PREFIX (imin - 1)) >= best + needed_improvement)
while (best && imin > 0 && (probe = PREFIX (imin - 1)) >= best)
{
// TODO: take more care to not screw up exact matches,
// use several "best"s according to quality
// (the most severe issue here is ignored diacritics)
if (!strcmp (word, g_array_index
(index, StardictIndexEntry, imin).name))
break;
best = probe;
imin--;
}
@ -985,13 +991,14 @@ stardict_longest_common_collation_prefix (StardictDict *sd,
if (U_FAILURE (error))
return 0;
UCollator *collator = sd->priv->collator;
if (!collator && !(collator = sd->priv->collator_root))
return 0;
// ucol_getSortKey() can't be used for these purposes, so the only
// reasonable thing remaining is iterating by full graphemes. It doesn't
// work entirely correctly (e.g. Czech "ch" should be regarded as a single
// unit, and punctuation could be ignored). It's just good enough.
//
// In theory we could set the strength to UCOL_PRIMARY and ignore accents
// but that's likely not what the user wants most of the time.
// unit). It's just good enough for most purposes.
//
// Locale shouldn't matter much with graphemes, let's use the default.
UBreakIterator *it1 =
@ -999,23 +1006,21 @@ stardict_longest_common_collation_prefix (StardictDict *sd,
UBreakIterator *it2 =
ubrk_open (UBRK_CHARACTER, NULL, uc2, uc2_len, &error);
UCollationStrength prev_strength = ucol_getStrength (collator);
ucol_setStrength (collator, UCOL_PRIMARY);
int32_t longest = 0;
int32_t pos1, pos2;
while ((pos1 = ubrk_next (it1)) != UBRK_DONE
&& (pos2 = ubrk_next (it2)) != UBRK_DONE)
{
if (sd->priv->collator)
{
if (!ucol_strcoll (sd->priv->collator, uc1, pos1, uc2, pos2))
longest = pos1;
}
// XXX: I'd need a new collator, so just do the minimal working thing
else if (pos1 == pos2 && !memcmp (uc1, uc2, pos1 * sizeof *uc1))
if (!ucol_strcoll (collator, uc1, pos1, uc2, pos2))
longest = pos1;
}
ubrk_close (it1);
ubrk_close (it2);
ucol_setStrength (collator, prev_strength);
if (!longest)
return 0;