[Xapian-discuss] Accents problem

[Peter Karman]

Tyler Durden wrote on 02/22/2010 05:43 AM:
> Hi,
> I've a problem with the accents. How do I configure Xapian to ignore
> the accents in the search/indexes?

opinions on this will vary. In my experience, it's best to put both
verbatim UTF-8 and ASCII transliterations in the index. I don't believe
Xapian has such a feature, but you can filter your text before adding to
the index. For Perl, there is Search::Tools::Transliterate (among others).

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