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Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 06 Dec 2016 17:37
by yusef88
could it work with Arabic letters like windows explorer?

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 16:00
by admin
In theory it should work.

Could you post some examples for me (with and without diacritics ) to copy and paste for testing, please?

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 17:40
by yusef88
Thanks for your interest
each letter in each group should be treated as the same character
  • ا آ أ إ
  • و ؤ
  • ي ى ئ
the other diacritics: they placed above or under the letter and should be ignored as well
(I wrote them in text file in case you can't copy them here)
ًٌٍَُِّْ

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 19:27
by admin
I would need the codes (e.g. 0654) of all diacritics on this page:
http://jrgraphix.net/r/Unicode/0600-06FF

I could not find a page with diacritics only (and I don't know Arabic). So could you please compile those codes for me, thanks. Then I can make ignore Arabic diacritics work.

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 21:35
by yusef88
is this format (U+0651) for the code, OK?
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn ... kbda1.html
I will use this page to get the codes easier (contains Arabic keyboard only which I need)

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 21:47
by admin
Yes, it's okay.

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 22:49
by yusef88
Arabic diacritics

Code: Select all

U+0651 U+064E U+064B U+064F U+064C U+0650 U+064D U+0652 U+0621 U+007E U+0640 
Arabic comma and Arabic semicolon ( if they should be treated as diacritics? )

Code: Select all

U+060C U+061B

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 23:05
by admin
Thanks! Beta comes tomorrow.

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 08 Dec 2016 10:05
by admin
It seems to work *mostly*.

This character makes problems:
ي

It does not match this one when stripped off the diacritic:
ى

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 08 Dec 2016 11:36
by yusef88
perfect! this is exactly what I was looking for
  • ى ي
I was wrong about these characters they are different and should not match so I didn't add them to the codes
+ Ignore Diacritics: Now Arabic diacritics are supported. All of them.

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 08 Dec 2016 11:41
by admin
Cool! :D I will change the change log.

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 31 Aug 2018 15:08
by yusef88
Has XY dropped support for ignoring Arabic diacritics? no longer works for me

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 04 Sep 2018 18:47
by admin
Thanks for the hint, should work again in next beta.

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 13 Nov 2018 13:43
by yusef88
it was fixed but now it no longer working again
thanks

Re: Find files: ignore diacritics with non-English letters

Posted: 13 Nov 2018 15:12
by admin
True. However, it also stopped working in earlier versions of XY. In version where it worked before. Now this is weird. :eh:

EDIT: Oh no, tested ى and ي but you said there are different. So: It does work here!