From: Radek Czajka <radoslaw.czajka@nowoczesnapolska.org.pl>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 12:10:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: allow search without diacritics (#287)
X-Git-Url: https://git.mdrn.pl/wolnelektury.git/commitdiff_plain/0962bb50bef94a051060dc90fd4bc2bbbf5938ff?ds=inline;hp=-c

allow search without diacritics (#287)
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0962bb50bef94a051060dc90fd4bc2bbbf5938ff
diff --git a/apps/catalogue/views.py b/apps/catalogue/views.py
index 0a048af9b..b32a310b5 100644
--- a/apps/catalogue/views.py
+++ b/apps/catalogue/views.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import zipfile
 import sys
 import pprint
 import traceback
+import re
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.template import RequestContext
@@ -171,16 +172,24 @@ def book_text(request, slug):
 # ==========
 # = Search =
 # ==========
+
+def _no_diacritics_regexp(query):
+    """ returns a regexp for searching for a query without diacritics
+    
+    should be locale-aware """
+    names = {'a':u'ą', 'c':u'ć', 'e':u'ę', 'l': u'ł', 'n':u'ń', 'o':u'ó', 's':u'ś', 'z':u'ź|ż'}
+    def repl(m):
+        l = m.group()
+        return "(%s|%s)" % (l, names[l])
+    return re.sub('[%s]'%(''.join(names.keys())), repl, query)
+
 def _word_starts_with(name, prefix):
     """returns a Q object getting models having `name` contain a word
     starting with `prefix`
     """
     kwargs = {}
     if settings.DATABASE_ENGINE in ('mysql', 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql'):
-        # we must escape `prefix` so that it only matches literally
-        for special in r'\^$.*+?|(){}[]':
-            prefix = prefix.replace(special, '\\' + special)
-        
+        prefix = _no_diacritics_regexp(re.escape(prefix))
         # we could use a [[:<:]] (word start), 
         # but we want both `xy` and `(xy` to catch `(xyz)`
         kwargs['%s__iregex' % name] = u"(^|[^[:alpha:]])%s" % prefix
diff --git a/wolnelektury/static/js/jquery.autocomplete.js b/wolnelektury/static/js/jquery.autocomplete.js
index 7cdb359d5..4e425e8bd 100644
--- a/wolnelektury/static/js/jquery.autocomplete.js
+++ b/wolnelektury/static/js/jquery.autocomplete.js
@@ -430,8 +430,22 @@ $.Autocompleter.defaults = {
 	width: 0,
 	multiple: false,
 	multipleSeparator: ", ",
+    regex_escape: function(term) {
+        term = term.replace(/([\^\$\(\)\[\]\{\}\*\.\+\?\|\\])/gi, "\\$1");
+        /* no polish diacritics; should be more locale-aware */
+        term = term.replace(/a/g, '[aą]')
+                .replace(/c/g, '[cć]')
+                .replace(/e/g, '[eę]')
+                .replace(/l/g, '[lł]')
+                .replace(/n/g, '[nń]')
+                .replace(/o/g, '[oó]')
+                .replace(/s/g, '[sś]')
+                .replace(/z/g, '[zźż]');
+        return term;
+    },
 	highlight: function(value, term) {
-		return value.replace(new RegExp("(?![^&;]+;)(?!<[^<>]*)(" + term.replace(/([\^\$\(\)\[\]\{\}\*\.\+\?\|\\])/gi, "\\$1") + ")(?![^<>]*>)(?![^&;]+;)", "gi"), "<strong>$1</strong>");
+		term = $.Autocompleter.defaults.regex_escape(term);
+		return value.replace(new RegExp("(?![^&;]+;)(?!<[^<>]*)(" + term + ")(?![^<>]*>)(?![^&;]+;)", "gi"), "<strong>$1</strong>");
 	},
     scroll: true,
     scrollHeight: 180
@@ -447,7 +461,8 @@ $.Autocompleter.Cache = function(options) {
 			s = s.toLowerCase();
 		var i = s.indexOf(sub);
 		if (options.matchContains == "word"){
-			i = s.toLowerCase().search("\\b" + sub.replace(/([\^\$\(\)\[\]\{\}\*\.\+\?\|\\])/gi, "\\$1").toLowerCase());
+			query = $.Autocompleter.defaults.regex_escape(sub.toLowerCase());
+			i = s.toLowerCase().search("\\b" + query);
 		}
 		if (i == -1) return false;
 		return i == 0 || options.matchContains;