Bug 177090

Summary: Ignore optional characters in search terms
Product: [Unmaintained] kab3 Reporter: Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component: generalAssignee: Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Dotan Cohen 2008-12-06 20:21:16 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Some languages have letters/characters which are optional, and may or may not be included when typing a contact's name. There should be an option to ignore such characters when searching in KAddressBook.

In English an example of such a character would be the hyphen. The name "Ben-Solman" could be typed "Ben Solman" for instance. In Hebrew the letter Yod and the character Geresh (apostrophe) are often eliminated in names, and just as often included. This is very problematic and even strict adherence to either an "include all" or "eleminate all" policy from the user's perspective is not enough to eliminate the problem.
Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2009-05-30 17:34:13 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 169403 ***
Comment 2 Tobias Koenig 2009-08-05 16:39:39 UTC 
The development of the old KAddressBook will be discontinued for KDE 4.4.
Since the new application has the same name, but a completly new code base we close all bug reports against the old version and ask the submitters to resend there reports against the new product.