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http://swish-e.org/docs/swish-faq.html#can_swish_e_index_multi_byte_characters_

kevin scribbled on 6/16/05 2:12 AM:

> Dear all
> 
> I wonder swish-e has chinese character support , i want index a xls file and i use a java program as filefilter to read this xls,
> when querying ,some chinese character can't be found even they do exist in this xls file.If anyone can help me out of this problem?

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