Add spell check feature for queries that give few results - #152
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This adds a "Did you mean..." ("Bedoelt u mogelijk...") suggestion feature that tries to correct misspelled words in search queries, using the search index as a dictionary. For example, correcting "digitaliserinsstrategie" to "digitaliseringsstrategie":
This uses the yhirose cpp-fstlib library to build an in-memory finite-state transducer over a "lexicon table" which is filled with the terms of the FTS5 full-text index at tkindex time.
Arbitrarily...
All of these can be tweaked without having to re-run tkindex, except the first.
An in-memory FST is also a good way to serve as-you-type query suggestions ("kat" -> "kathmann", "raj" -> "rajkowski") but this is not yet included here, and would need a little bit more JavaScript to hook up with the autoComplete.min.js library.
This PR also contains the changes from #149.