Chad, you should use a mapping filter to transform special characters like german umlauts into its ascii counterpiece.
take a look out this analyzer, maybe it helps .. http://bugs.omdb.org/browser/branches/2007.1/lib/omdb/ferret/analysis.rb Ben _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk

