RE: Unicode Search Engines

[Addison Phillips [wM]]

Most search engines can search sites encoded in UTF-8. That isn't generally the problem. The problem is entering the data to search for. Most of the search pages aren't encoded in a Unicode encoding, so you can't enter "just any" Unicode characters to search for...   One exception that I know well (I did some I18N work for them) is AltaVista. If you go to the search page and click on "Customize Settings", you can set the search engine to use UTF-8 as your search encoding (both input and output). The back end is entirely Unicode.   Regards,   Addison Addison P. Phillips Globalization Architect / Manager, Globalization Engineering webMethods, Inc.  |  The Business Integration Company 432 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, California, USA +1 408.962.5487 (phone)  +1 408.210.3569 (mobile) ------------------------------------------------- Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature.     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aman Chawla Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:49 AM To: Unicode Subject: Unicode Search Engines Are there any search engines at all at present which allow one to search sites encoded in UTF-8? If not, are there plans to build such search engines? For example, is Google going to implement such an engine?   Aman Chawla