Hi Natalie and thanks for the quick reply Your solution is not pretty at all but doable. Your findings of Zend_Search are very interesting of course since I'm trying to make that work too. I'll go for the synonym solution but I just wonder what's the effect on speed when there's thousands of entries having this special encoding.
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:55 +0100, Natalie Kather - NorthClick wrote: > Hi Teemu, > > I had the same problem with German umlauts. > I decided to "encode" the ä, ö, ü as xxxaexxx, xxxoexxx, xxxuexxx, and so > on. You just have to manually assign to each special character a unique > synonym. It's not a very beautiful solution, but it works... I published > this and other results of my work with Zend_Search on the blog of my company > on http://blog.northclick.de/ . > > I hope this helps you. > > Kind regards, > > Natalie Kather > > http://www.northclick.de/ -- Teemu Valimaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
