LP#1501781 - Make patron name search diacritic/space insensitive. user/dpearl/accent5
authorDan Pearl <dpearl@cwmars.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:49:17 +0000 (09:49 -0400)
committerDan Pearl <dpearl@cwmars.org>
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 18:32:56 +0000 (13:32 -0500)
commit29b6064779c2a17741533fd965bbaee9e2e09945
treed426911f08c41a6d642168bc598776f7af66c02f
parentfd435363e7af964c699032b5eba4eb56c14c899e
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>
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14 files changed:
Open-ILS/src/extras/install/Makefile.debian-jessie
Open-ILS/src/extras/install/Makefile.debian-squeeze
Open-ILS/src/extras/install/Makefile.debian-wheezy
Open-ILS/src/extras/install/Makefile.fedora
Open-ILS/src/extras/install/Makefile.ubuntu-precise
Open-ILS/src/extras/install/Makefile.ubuntu-trusty
Open-ILS/src/perlmods/Build.PL
Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/Application/Storage/Publisher/actor.pm
Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/000.functions.general.sql
Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/005.schema.actors.sql
Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/950.data.seed-values.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]