[Xapian-devel] Case sensitive search

[James Aylett]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 05:44:16AM -0800, arjan holscher wrote:

> I´ve been developing a search application using Xapian and
> Omega. When our visitors search on specific keywords it´s
> noticable that Omega is case sensitive. It will find results on
> keyword `Asus´ and it will NOT find results on keyword
> ´asus´.

The way omega works is for all words to be normalised to lower case,
but also to add a 'raw' term for every word that starts with an upper
case letter. Raw terms are prefixed with 'R'.

This should be working properly with scriptindex as well, providing
you're using ``index'' or ``indexpos''.
   
> NOTE: I'm passing in the documents as they are in the
> database. Meaning that the documents contain words with capital
> letters. I don't know if this is causing the problem? Do I need to
> make the input to scriptindex lowercase?

What does you scriptindex index script look like?

J

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