Accent search

Hi!

 

I posted a mail some days ago. But nobody answer me. Maybe I didn't specify
correctly my problem? Or that is really a problem without solution?

Please send your opinion related to this situation. My old mail is attached
below. Thanks a lot!

 

Regards,

     Levi

 

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Hi guys,

 

this is my first adventure with htdig. With one of my colleagues we have
installed successfully htdig 3.2.0b6. As most of users, I think, we need the
search engine to search in other languages, in my case, in Hungarian.

I read on the official site, that htdig is not able to search on characters
encoded on more than 8 bits.

 

In other words I needed to search for example the character ő what is
encoded in html: & # 3 3 7 ;    First of all, the characters that have the
code bigger than 255 were not well processed and in the search result they
didn't appear as character, it appears their html code.  The second problem
is that I cannot search on them. I set up the accent algorithm and it
doesn't recognize a similarity between o and ő. So the only way, I find this
words is to enter in the search field & # 3 3 7; but this is not a good
solution. Is this from the same reason? Htdig cannot find them. Is there any
other solution? Or I must wait for newer version.

 

My second question is related to search algorithms.

I want to make my search not sensible to diacritics. I used accents
algorithm in combination with substring:

   substring:1 accents:1

The real problem is:

Let's consider the word: "mambómámbo"

I think that it is normal that if I search for: "bomam" the algorithm to
find the searched word, because it can be converted to "bómám" according to
accents algorithm, and that is a substring of the searched word. But the
search algorithm doesn't find it. It is very interesting that if I search
for "mambomambo" the searched word was found. (it was only the accents
algorithm used), or if I search for "mambó" the word is found, too
(substring algorithm used). It seems, that htdig cannot use a cooperation of
the two algorithm. Probably is some problem with my configuration, because I
saw other sites that use htdig and this problem doesn't appear.

 

If anybody know a solution for any of my (two) problems, please answer.
These are my final probs before integrating htdig in my website.

Thank you in advance!

 

Regards,

       Levi