topic Re: Search Engine (lucene) problem with Greek intonated vowels in Alfresco Archive

Search Engine (lucene) problem with Greek intonated vowels

aeon — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:16:03 GMT

Greetings friends,There is a peculiar problem when using the Greek language pack and trying to use lowercase search strings that contain words with intonated vowels.For example, the correct spelling for the "word" test in Greek is: "δοκιμή"The last letter is a vowel that has a tone ("ή").If someone

Re: Search Engine (lucene) problem with Greek intonated vowels

andy — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:02:50 GMT

Hi

You probably want to configure the repository to use a Greek tokeniser.
Have you done this?
See the admin guide.

There will still be issues as we do not correctly support stemming and wildcard queries throught the stack for non standard tokenisers. Quoted search strings will work correctly. This is on the listy of things to do.

BTW, if you quote your search string in the UI I would expect it to work.

Regards

Andy

Re: Search Engine (lucene) problem with Greek intonated vowels

aeon — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:03:46 GMT

Thank you Andy for your prompt reply.

I have to make a small correction, concerning something which I discovered in the meantime, that might help locating what's wrong:

The problem (no results returned) occurs only when the search string is found in titles. It works fine when the string is contained inside content (i.e. in a text file).

Btw, I tried enclosing the search string both in single and double quotes, but unfortunately the problem still remains!

Is the tokenizer the answer or should I look for something else?

Re: Search Engine (lucene) problem with Greek intonated vowels

andy — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:57:17 GMT

Hi

This should be sorted in 2.0. Greek should be supported out of the box.
Tokenisation should be done for you - according to the locale selected from the UI. Again, only items in quotes are forced to be tokenised.

I have added some simple tests. If there are any Greek specific ones you would like to see then let me know.

Regards

Andy