Re: [Evolution-hackers] How the Contact Card classfied by alphabets?

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

There is no figuring out that happens with those letters.  We (for
better or worse) left it up to the translators to provide the search
characters/labels.  Those buttons are gone in 1.5/2.0 for exactly this
reason - they're impossible to get right in their current state for all
locales.

Chris

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 04:27, Martin Grimme wrote:
> Am Fr, den 30.01.2004 schrieb Yong Sun um 13:01:
> > I have a problem to fix in addressbook. In China (I think also in JK),
> > poeple's name is different to Westen's, e.g., maybe someone's name is
> > å¼ ä¸?, it's phonetic (or PINYIN) is "zhang san". If I push the button "Z",
> > I want to show å¼ ä¸?'s information. 
> > 
> > But the A-Z button not fully valid for Chinese name, some characters
> > could be listed correctly according to their PINYIN, yet for other
> > characters, they were put to "others" button. 
> 
> When you look at the GNOME unicode character map, you can see that
> there is information about the PINYIN available for each Chinese
> character. Evo could use the same table to find out how to map Hanzi
> characters to latin letters.
> 
> This would work well for Mandarin, where a character usually has one
> pronunciation and it's quite clear how to pronounce a given name.
> But I see a problem with Japanese, where characters have different
> pronunciations and it's not always clear how to pronounce a given name.
> 
> Maybe Evo should support a radical based addressbook for languages with
> Chinese characters. There could be a switch for displaying the radical
> buttons next to the letter buttons and whoever wants to deal with
> Chinese characters enables the additional buttons.
> Such an additional button bar could be made available for several other
> writing systems as well, e.g. Hangul, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Kyrill, ...
> 
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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