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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
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