Morus Walter said the following on 1/21/2005 2:14 AM:
No. You could do a ( ( french-query ) or ( english-query ) ) construct using
one query. So query construction would be a bit more complex but querying itself wouldn't change.
The first thing I'd do in your case would be to look at the differences in the output of english and french snowball stemmer. I don't speak any french, but probably you might even use both stemmers on all texts.
Morus
I've done some thinking afterwards, and instead of messing with complex queries, would it make sense to
replace all "special" characters such as "é", "è" with "e" during indexing (I suppose write a custom analyzer)
and then during searching parse the query and replace all occurances of special characters (if any) with their
normal latin equivalents?
This should produce the required results, no? Since the index would not contain any French characters and
searching for French words would return them since they were indexed as normal words.
-pedja
