Hi List, This is a rather long email. So "executive version" might be: How can I support searching a French Website that contains accents with htdig running on a system that doesn't support locales ? "tech version" : I'm trying to get ht://dig 3.1.5 to index/search a French website containing accents. I have *extensively* RTFMed on the mail archives & the contributed work/guides. My first try was "le kit de francisation" made by Didier Lebrun. After running the given rundig, I realized that this kit cannot be the solution since htdig is running on an OpenBSD machine which doesn't support locales :( I then tried Daniele Bufarini's accents.zip patch which is supposed to allow htdig to dig the documents & strips the accents before putting them into the words db & it also modifies htsearch in such a way that it can strip accents from the search keywords & search for the non-accented equiv. If I'm getting it straight, this patch == my solution since: 1. htdig "digs" into the french documents & then strips the accents before constructing the dbs (vulnérabilité will then be referenced as vulnerabilite) 2. when a user enters "vulnérabilité", htsearch interprets it as "vulnerabilite" & matches because of 1 but it doesn't work at all !!! In fact, after some debugging, we discovered that the patch only strips the first encountered accent of a given letter (so sécurité becomes securité & tétâtétâ becomes tetatétâ). So a rather lame thought occured to me: I mixed Daniele's patches with the files from "le kit de francisation" (synonyms.fr, francais.0, francais.aff, bad_words.fr ...). It did no good (I dunno why I did that). I ended up testing the remaining accents patch accents.5 by Robert Marchand. It doesn't work. Well, this final patch may be a lead to a solution. As I said before, my system doesn't support locales. So if I can get htdig to dig the accented words into their unaccented equivs & if htsearch strips accents from the queries before looking them up, It'll be great. I've been working on the subject for more than 4 days now non-stop & I may end up in an asylum :-( or reformatting the machine into Linux which has locales but I'd really luv to see htdig humming on my OpenBSD box instead. So if you have any idea/patch/tip/whatever to get this to work, I'll be *extremely* grateful. Thanks in advance for *any* help you can provide us with ! Regards, Saad. -- Saad Kadhi -- Network & Security Engineer ---------------------------------------------------------------- preferred TV Program: OpenBSD Vs. Script Kitties starring RamBlow outstanding Unix features: immutable & sappnd preferred kernel security level: 2 preferred holy saying: RTFM nodisclaimer ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this. List archives: <http://www.htdig.org/mail/menu.html> FAQ: <http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html>
