You can use several languages alternatively by setting up
a htdig.conf for each language and let the user select the language.

As an example I attached the a HTML file which passes the configfile
without extension to the CGI program.

Werner Mueller

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> 
> At 4:47 PM +0800 11/2/00, Mathias K�rber wrote:
> >a) index pages which may occur in any of 2 or more languages
> 
> Well, sure.
> 
> >b) automatically identify which language the files are in (no,
> >there is no identifier, this is an email archive which has
> >mails in English, German and a few other languages)
> 
> No, I'm afraid not. There isn't much "intelligence" in this regard.
> Even so, you ask a difficult problem--the code would need to
> "recognize" from the text which is one of the harder problems in text
> processing. The HTML standard offers several methods for indicating
> the language of a document, which would help but from what you say,
> these are not used on your pages.
> 
> >c) use more than one .aff file, the correct one for each language?
> 
> Certainly it would help if ht://Dig kept some metadata for the
> language of a document--this would enable language-specific searches
> and language-specific fuzzy matching as you describe. But this would
> likely be dependent on the META information available in the
> documents themselves.
> 
> >The FAQ seems to say that I should create a subdir $COMMON/german
> >and install the german language files there, but that would make the
> >English ones unused, no?
> 
> That is correct. Of course you can perform searches on all languages
> at the same time--the only restriction is that most fuzzy algorithms
> won't work well.
> 
> --
> -Geoff Hutchison
> Williams Students Online
> http://wso.williams.edu/
> 
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Title: Indor Suchmaschine

Indor Suche


Mit dieser experimentellen Suchmaschine k�nnen Sie den Inhalt aller �ffentlich zug�nglichen, auf INDOR gespeicherten Dokumente absuchen.

Suchmethode: Alle Woerter Irgend ein Wort Logischer Ausdruck Ausgabeformat: Lang Kurz Sortiert nach: Treffer das Neueste zuerst Titel A..Z Reverse Score das �lteste zuerst Titel Z..A Woerterbuch: Deutsch English Francais
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