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Implement two levels of normalization for lookup

Open pudo opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

We have a ton of aliases now, and transliterating leads to a loss of precision. For this reason we should first try and match a lightly normalised (e.g. lowercased) country name, and only then proceed to using full normalization (transliteration, etc.) when it's needed and we have no other option than to sacrifice precision.

pudo avatar Feb 17 '25 13:02 pudo