On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:26:41 -0500 (CDT) Gilles Detillieux 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> According to David Adams:
> > 4)  You have hit a bug in htdig 3.1.2 which results in punctuation
> >     in the page head not being stripped out.  If you have, for example:
> > 
> >     <Title>"Champion" says Ray!</title>
> > 
> >     This may cause the "words":
> > 
> >             "champion" 
> >             says
> >             ray!
> > 
> >     to be indexed.
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone positively confirm that that bug is fixed in 3.1.3 ?
> 
> As far as I recall, there was no problem with punctuation in titles
> causing contamination of words in the database.  Back in 3.1.0,
> punctuation in titles could contaminate the excerpt, but not the database.
> I believe this problem of punctuation getting into words is limited to
> meta descriptions.  If this is the problem you're thinking of, then no,
> it has not been fixed yet.
> 
> -- 
> Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
> Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Phone:  (204)789-3766
> Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)   Fax:    (204)789-3930
> 

Gilles,

I have checked back on our previous correspondence.  The 
problem was indeed for meta descriptions, and may not have 
included the enter head section, but it was definitely 
htdig version 3.1.2.
 
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David John Adams
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