Matching of Chinese searches #30
Description
Many Chinese search boxes, including address book / contact list searches, "find in page" searches, and "app list" searches (search for apps available on the current OS), etc. support the following search formats:
- Full spelling matching: "beijing" matches 北京
- Syllable initial matching: "bj" matches 北京
- Fuzzy matching: "beij" matches 北京
- Mixed matching: "bei京" matches 北京
This may be beyond the scope of this document, but we might want to describe something like this somewhere, maybe in one of our author-oriented articles.