[Xapian-discuss] Xapian::Queryparser / Encoding Problem (Utf8)

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Tue Aug 16 18:53:23 BST 2005


On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:29:15PM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:
> Oh, and note that the very latest english stemming algorithm from
> snowball makes use of apostophe characters if it's presented with them,
> so it would be good to stop stripping them out of the input to the
> stemmer, if the language is english.

Perhaps we should just always present apostrophes to the stemmer (and
tweak other stemmers to expect this if necessary)?

Cheers,
    Olly



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