> > There is NO WAY to store more than one encoding in the index as it is
> > currently designed.

Doesnt the meta charset give you the coding used in the original document - 
assuming that the 8bit chars are the more unusual chars then it is possible 
that a word in Icelandic charset maps onto the same sequence of 8 bit chars 
as would a different word in the Norse charset.  But if the searcher is 
viewing with the charset Icelandic set then searching for Meta 
Charset=Icelandic and word=whatever will find the Icelandic word.  Those 
pages not encoded under the Icelandic charset cannot by definition contain 
that char.
Or have I misunderstood the problem ?
Frances Coakley - website http://www.manxnotebook.com