As marvin mentioned, there are some UTF-8 incompatabilities between java lucene and Plucene.
Incidently: your best bet for getting assistence with Plucene is the Plucene mailing lists, as identified at the bottom of "perldoc Plucene" ... http://kasei.com/mailman/listinfo/plucene ...perl discusions don't tend to come up much on [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:35:29 -0700 : From: Marvin Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Reply-To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org : To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org : Subject: Re: using Plucene and Plucene::Simple : : : On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:20 AM, Dean Hoover wrote: : : > I have developed some simple programs in java form creating lucene : > indexes and then using them to search. I now have an interest in : > using perl to use the indexes for search purposes, but am having : > trouble doing even the simplest thing using Plucene and : > Plucene::Simple. : : Plucene and Lucene do not use the same index format. It's very : difficult to implement the Lucene format using Perl. KinoSearch 0.05 : managed it if your source material was pure ASCII, but I changed the : format in 0.06 and they're no longer compatible. : : Things will get a lot easier if this change is made: <http:// : issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-510>. : : > If anyone here can help, I would appreciate it. After googling and : > attempting to use Plucene directly, it appeared that it would be : > better to use Plucene::Simple. : : Plucene::Simple is just a wrapper -- it won't help. : : Plucene can of course read and write its own indexes, but if you are : considering doing that, you should also be aware that it is quite : slow: <http://www.rectangular.com/kinosearch/benchmarks.html>. : : Regards, : : Marvin Humphrey : Rectangular Research : http://www.rectangular.com/ : : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]