That's no myth :) Core Lucene (even the current version) does not include classes that know how to analyze/tokenize text in languages other than English, Russian, and German. However, take a look at the Snowball contributions in Lucene Sandbox, where a few more analyzers are available, including those for CJK group of langauges.
Otis --- Jason Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a plugin in our eclipse project named > org.apache.lucene_1.2.1. > It works quite well in that help system. > > I've been notified that this particular version of the lucene search > analyzer searches well in German and English (GE), but not so well in > the > rest of the languages on this planet. > > I have several questions > 1. If it does not search very "well" in French, Italian and Japanese > (FIJ), what does that really mean to a user conducting searches? > a. If this is a myth and the searches work the same in EFIG-J, please > let me know that. > b. If this is not a myth and there are plugins that enable the search > to work well in FIJ? > > Thanks > jason > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
