On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:24:54AM +0200, Chad Thatcher wrote: > Hi all, > > I have indexed a huge amount of data with text from several european > languages. In the index are values like Georg Friedrich Händel. > > I would like a search phrase like "Georg Friedrich Handel" to find > records with the real spelling of Händel but it doesn't seem to work. > > Can anyone give me an idea of what I need to do to make this happen. A > bit lost here and can't seem to find anything on google to help out. I > have an idea that it might be a locale issue but not sure.
To achieve this, simply replace all occurences of 'ä' by 'a' in both indexed content and queries. MappingFilter [1] is your friend :-) Cheers, Jens [1] http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Analysis/MappingFilter.html -- Jens Krämer http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
