Sorry for two in two days. I hope that I can solve this one as easily as
yesterday...


Finally, I had time to work on my multilanguage search.

Mostly is going swimmingly using the followinc conf:

WordCharacters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.
IgnoreFirstChar .-
IgnoreLastChar  .-
BeginCharacters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
EndCharacters   abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
IndexReport 2
IgnoreTotalWordCountWhenRanking yes
IndexComments 0
BumpPositionCounterCharacters |.
FuzzyIndexingMode Stemming_es
DefaultContents XML
MetaNames sphotogs categories sort_date qphotographer image_restrictions
id agents_off crop profile
UndefinedMetaTags index
PropertyNamesDate sort_date
PropertyNames id photographer subject released orig_id date_shot weight  image_restrictions short_caption tsize siteowner adweight
SwishProgParameters sp

this hands off to my script which creates xml with the specification:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

the indexes are going through great, and searches on the word espana (
with the ~ over the n) is searched correctly, as are all words with
spanish characters.

It would seem that the problem has beeen solved, but it is not. now i need
to get espana (without the spanish n to return the same set of results,
but alas, I have not been able to. I tried TranslateCharacters option,
that ended up removing all the results.

I could so some kung fu in the indexer to index both versions of the
words, but it seems clunky.

So any advice appreciated, and since I am most likeley leaving out
critical pieces, I am fully prepared for bill to ask me to send
requests for more specifics

Brad
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 Brad Miele
 Technology Director
 AuroraPhotos.com
 (207) 828-8787 x110
 bmiele@auroraphotos.com

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