there's a "feature" in the German stemmer (I would call it a bug) that
treats words ending with "t" differently if they start with a capital or
non-capital letter. Are you sure you didn't type "gesch�ft" and "Geschaeft"?
Cause that's supposedly stemmed differently.

--Clemens

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From: "Marc Guillemot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:40 AM
Subject: Help for german queries


> Hi,
>
> I've performed some tests with Lucene for german indexation/search but I
> don't get the results I expected:
>
> - Umlaut:
> search for:
>     - "Gesch�ft" -> x results
>     - "Geschaeft" -> no result
> Is there an option in the standard german classes to make the 2 searches
> above equivalent?
>
> - Composed words:
> "betreuung" is not found in a doc containing "Kundenbetreuung"
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Marc.
>
>
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