LP#1501781 - Make patron name search diacritic/space insensitive. user/dpearl/accents
authorDan Pearl <dpearl@cwmars.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:49:17 +0000 (09:49 -0400)
committerDan Pearl <dpearl@cwmars.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2015 14:05:35 +0000 (10:05 -0400)
commit07c31e598c6777eb4c3652f62b5371084b26542c
tree789cf51c34bfa3cbbad0e2c7f2ce30b32bb332f8
parent8d3544ef37b42aaf4c71d38f0c8cbf6d4d1ca53e
LP#1501781 - Make patron name search diacritic/space insensitive.

Diacritical marks may exist in the patron record -- as they should, but this makes patron name search difficult
for librarians who may be unfamiliar with all the special characters used and also how to elicit them from a
keyboard.  To ease this, accented characters will be converted into their 'plain' analogs for comparison purposes.

So, for example, if the patron's last name is Chávez, typing "Chavez" in the Last Name box in Patron Search will
match it.

Spaces in a name (like "De la Croix") will be squashed out so that name would be matched by "Delacroix" or "De la Croix" or variants.

The librarian can enter the accented characters or not.

Signed-off-by: Dan Pearl <dpearl@cwmars.org>
Signed-off-by:
Signed-off-by:
Open-ILS/src/perlmods/Build.PL
Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/Application/Storage/Publisher/actor.pm
Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/005.schema.actors.sql
Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/create_database_extensions.sql
Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/upgrade/XXXX.schema.patron_unaccent.sql [new file with mode: 0644]
docs/RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT/Client/accent_insensitive_patron_search [new file with mode: 0644]