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How to handle Turkish character issues when using Text-Range-Module in Rangy library for word search in HTML documents? #485
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Hi
I am using the Text-Range-Module in the Rangy library to search for a word in an HTML document. However, I am having trouble with Turkish characters, and it's not finding the word I'm looking for. An example word is 'Çincesinde.'
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emrecanmuslu commentedon Aug 7, 2023
@timdown can you help me with this issue?
DemaPy commentedon Sep 4, 2024
@emrecanmuslu you have to try to use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_Highlight_API along with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Range and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Highlight
mokhosh commentedon Apr 9, 2025
@DemaPy This might be ok for temporary highlighting on the frontend, but I don't think there's a way to serialize and persist these highlights in a database.
hhk-png commentedon Jul 2, 2025
@mokhosh XPath can be used to store Ranges. But since the Highlight API doesn't support selecting a specific highlight region, it's not possible to delete this.
hhk-png commentedon Jul 2, 2025
@mokhosh I found that it's possible to use
Range.isPointInRange()andRange.intersectsNode()to identify a specific Range. However, each time we make a selection, we need to iterate through all the ranges in the Highlight.