Hello
I’m happy to announce that the Ufind library is now available on opam.
Ufind is a Utf8 search engine with parameterized case and accent sensibility.
Example: I use it daily at work for the following problem: I have lists of names (students, professors) where I Iike to keep all the correct accents (like “Ljubičić”, or “Giáp Đông Nghị”, or “Hélène”, etc.) However, I often have to match these names against other lists from the University administration which, usually, have no or very few accents. I wrote Ufind for this.
Now I can search for “dong” and it will return “Giáp Đông Nghị” (with some ranking score)
See the README file or the documentation for more details.
Internally, ufind uses ubase for dealing with accents/diacritics.