project-robius / project-robius/robrix
Fuzzy matching for romanized versions of other languages (e.g., matching pinyin)
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- Rust
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Description
I just came across this crate that offers romanization as an easy rust library: https://github.com/fulm-o/uroman-rs
We could use this when:
- filtering rooms (to match room names in non-roman characters)
- searching for users (matching display name)
- searching messages
- however, this might get very expensive, as we'd have to romanize all messages in the event cache, so we should only do it when explicitly enabled via a user choice, like a checkbox that says "match other languages using romanization (slow)"
- searching for public rooms/spaces (once we support that in the future)
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the room-filtering, user-search, and message-search entry points, then evaluate the uroman-rs crate for romanization. Define how romanized matching should work and where the explicit “match other languages using romanization (slow)” choice applies. Done should cover the agreed search surfaces without unconditionally romanizing all cached messages.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100