According to mcqu0043: > Is there any way (outside of compiled into the system for locale) to get > the ability to search Arabic texts? The system I am on does not have the > arabic locale.
No, not unless you want to start modifying the C++ code. Right now, htdig only supports 8-bit character sets that are defined by a locale. It's not strictly necessary to have a locale for your own language (in general), but you need to have a locale that defines the full character set used by your language. For example, it's possible to index most western European languages with any one of the western European locales (indexing French with the es_ES locale for instance) because they all use the same ISO-8859-1 character set. In the case of arabic, though, the language has it's own unique character set so you'd need a locale for it. Complicating the matter further, I'm not certain that arabic uses an 8-bit character set, but more likely something like UTF-8 in which some characters are represented by more than one byte. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
