valeriansaliou/sonic

Pinyin support for Chinese users (romanization system for Standard Chinese)

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#182 opened on Oct 8, 2019

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Description

does sonic support pinyin? Because we are from China, Chinese users often use pinyin to search

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
search
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
4
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
over 1 week
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
needs investigation
Prerequisites
Rust programmingSearch engine conceptsChinese pinyin system
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
25
Research direction
Investigate Sonic's current text processing pipeline (e.g., tokenizer module) to understand how to integrate pinyin romanization. Look for existing Rust libraries for pinyin conversion and Chinese text segmentation. Review the issue comments for any additional requirements. Consider proposing a design for a new query parser that converts pinyin to Chinese characters before search.