Multi-Lingual Search: Diacritic Sensitivity and what you need to know about it...

Multi-Lingual Search: Diacritic Sensitivity and what you need to know about it...

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Diacritic sensitivity is turned off by default in all SKUs.

The diacritic sensitivity can be turned on with the following command line:

 

Problem

In short the search engine still treats Swedish characters as accents rather than individual characters.

The Swedish characters Å (å), Ä (ä) are treated as special cases of A (a).

And the Swedish character Ö (ö) is treated as an special case of O (o).

 

But in fact they are not – they are individual characters in our alphabet.

 

Resolution 

By running the stsadm command the problem was resolved...

Stsadm -o osearchdiacriticsensitive -setstatus TRUE

 

 


 

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  • Hi Joel,

    Can that setting be applied for a specific language pack or only across the whole SSP/system? If the latter, how do you deal with co-existence of differing requirements for different languages?

    Thanks

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