since aspseek 1.2.5 there is the new utf-8 storage mode.
it says that utf-8 will reduce memory and harddrive space and increase indexing and
search speed. now i have two questions:
1) with index -b can an existing index/database be converted to utf-8. can this be
done with a productive index? you also have to set up a special config entry in
searchd/aspseek.conf. what happens during conversion? can the database still
be searched or do i have a downtime. at the moment we have indexed at about
150.000 webpages.
2) utf-8 will be most efficient with us-ascii. what happens when there are also
words with special chars like the german umlauts. will there still be all those
improvements?
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