--- ECHO_content/authorSplitter.py	2006/02/03 20:41:29	1.1
+++ ECHO_content/authorSplitter.py	2010/02/15 19:03:28	1.3
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ class authorSplitter:
             splitted = s.split(";")
            
             for w in splitted:
-                    result.append(w.lstrip().rstrip())
+                    if not (w[0:2]=="!!"): #don't index !!NOT USED....
+                        result.append(w.lstrip().rstrip())
         return result
 
  
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ except:
     pass
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-   a = 'abc def我们的很 好。'
+   a = 'abc def\U00CE\U00D2\U00D3\U00C7\U00B5\U00C4\U00DC\U00C3\U00A1\U00A3'
    u = unicode(a, 'gbk')
    s = authorSplitter()
    print s.process([u])