This is not so much a development note/request but more of a practical investigate collective to raise everyone's awareness (in case anyone needs it) - I've spent some time on this and thought I'd share some of my findings and opinions.
A bit of background - Arabeyes is using swish-e for its web/mailing-list searching and since we don't have (yet) lots of Arabic content per se (this is slated to change soon) we never really needed UTF-8 support for indexing, searching, etc. I recently started looking into what is out there for us to use which resulted in, + Swish-e (http://www.swish-e.org) - NO UTF-8 support (needs to be added ASAP) - Fast, VERY flexible - Used in many serious sites - Very active development + Namazu (http://www.namazu.org) - Notes UTF-8 support - Used by GNU's mailing-lists - Development stopped ? + Mnogosearch (http://www.mnogosearch.org) - Notes UTF-8 support - Various database storage support (mysql) - Used by debian.org among lots of others - Active development There are heaps of other search engines but none seem to support UTF-8 and that is the crux of my email. I would _love_ to see Swish-e seriously moving in that direction (I guess I'm biased and like swish-e the most). My various probes in that regard got answered with "Swish-e will need a very large scale rewrite" yet the author was open to patches/discussions, etc (I don't think its high on his priority list though and we need to change that by, at a min, demanding for it). The point here is the more options we have the better off everyone is. UTF-8 support doesn't mean Arabic only either and so it would be wise to band with the various non-ASCII (8-bit) languages to form a united front to push UTF-8 support on the most basic and useful utilities including, in this instance, search engines. Any thoughts/experiances/suggestions ? Salam. - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
