[pilot-db-list] Searching Hebrew

[Yedidyah Bar-D. <di...@ta...>]

> 
> > 3. Searching for Hebrew phrases is a bit weird. When using one kit of
> > Hebrew support, the one he got with the palm (HarelHeb 3.5, IIRC), it
> > only finds things if they are at the end of a field. When using another
> > support kit (a 2-week temporary license from www.kalanit.co.il for
> > what seems like a newer version of the same HarelHeb, but not sure),
> > it works just fine. Is this reasonable? Is there anything pilot-db can
> > do about it, or is this only the foreign-language support's job? I
> > did grep the source and found it's MatchString, which calls
> > *Glue* functions. Are these part of the foreign-lang support?
> 
> I don't know---I haven't dealt much with the foreign language support,
> and not at all with the non-latin-alphabet languages.  Submitting it
> as a bug report would be useful to create a permanent record, but my
> offhand guess is that if we are calling the *Glue* functions
> correctly, there is not much else to be done on the pilot-db end.
> But it is certainly worth checking if we are calling them correctly...
> 

For now I only _read_ the relevant code, and it seemed ok to me, how
much this worth isn't clear. The fact that it does work with one kit
(the newer) suggests that it is indeed a bug in the older kit, not
pilot-db. I hoped there is someone on the list who does have some
experience with this, who would be able to tell if this analysis is
reasonable (in which case, the only thing left to do is to purchase
the newer version. BTW - do other languages support kits cost money,
in other countries? It's not cheap either - around $30-$40, for a
machine that cost him $150).
-- 
Didi