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hello,

following problem:

defined glossary-item:
in the entry-text

ABBR becomes ABBR[?] - allright

but

abbreviation becomes abbr[?]eviation

this is not so good I think

possible solution:

watch, if after the defined phrase is a white space (or ":", ",","." ...)

or

make it case sensitive?

perhaps a view to the contentrewrite-plugin? with this plugin

abbreviation is still abbreviation

I'm looking at the code, and it checks for \b (word boundary) before and after the abbr term.

I doubt that you're using an old version of the plugin, but could you check just to be sure? I'm looking at SPARTACUS version 1.4, CVS revision 1.3.

it's at supersized: version: 1.4

you can have al look at blog

http://blog.defo.info/archives/18-Willkommen.html

with "Einige Abk[?]ürzungen"

and in glossary is defined:

ABK:Ausbildungskommission - zur Beratung des Fachbereichsrats

I'll bet it's an encoding/language problem: /b (word boundary) probably just checks for non-ASCII characters or something. That u-with-umlaut qualifies as a "word boundary" in that case.

Unfortunately, I'm an ignorant American, and I have no idea what to do with language problems. I know that UTF-8 is the way to go, but that's no help in this case. We'll have to wait for Garvin (or someone more knowledgeable) to help out on this one.

I'll bet it's an encoding/language problem: /b (word boundary) probably just checks for non-ASCII characters or something. That u-with-umlaut qualifies as a "word boundary" in that case.

Yeah, it is it: "Einige Abkuerzungen" is not affected.

Unfortunately, I'm an ignorant American, and I have no idea what to do with language problems. I know that UTF-8 is the way to go, but that's no help in this case. We'll have to wait for Garvin (or someone more knowledgeable) to help out on this one.

perhaps is it a good idea to make it case sensitive like the contentrewrite-plugin? Not only for my ü-problem (this is not so important) but in general?

I just committed that to CVS. It occurs to me that, if others needs multiple cases for their abbreviations, they can just add them in their configuration.

the workaround works, thanks.

Happy to help out!