Ferret talk - Jul 2007 - Query with special characters crashes under Windows XP

Hi,

Index queries with special characters (e.g. German Umlauts but also
other European ones) make the Ruby process run for quite a long time and
crash finally.

I''m using Rails on Windows XP with Ferret 0.11.4_mswin_32.

I could isolate the problem in the following simple controller action
(so there''s no web browser form field involved):

def test
  index = Ferret::I.new
  index << "Portim?o"
  p index.search "Portim?o"
end


The statement index.search "Portim?o" causes the crash. There is no
entry in ferret_index.log or any other feedback.


My renvironment contains the following:

  ENV[''LANG''] = ''de_DE.UTF-8 at euro''
  ENV[''LC_TIME''] = ''C''
  require ''acts_as_ferret''

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help,

Starburger

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Hi!

Afair this issue has come up a few times now, always on Windows 
machines...

Is there some windows equivalent to unix locale settings that might be
set wrong (i.e. to something not UTF8)?

Jens

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:27:14PM +0200, Star Burger
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Index queries with special characters (e.g. German Umlauts but also
> other European ones) make the Ruby process run for quite a long time and
> crash finally.
> 
> I''m using Rails on Windows XP with Ferret 0.11.4_mswin_32.
> 
> I could isolate the problem in the following simple controller action
> (so there''s no web browser form field involved):
> 
> def test
>   index = Ferret::I.new
>   index << "Portim?o"
>   p index.search "Portim?o"
> end
> 
> 
> The statement index.search "Portim?o" causes the crash. There is
no
> entry in ferret_index.log or any other feedback.
> 
> 
> My renvironment contains the following:
> 
>   ENV[''LANG''] = ''de_DE.UTF-8 at euro''
>   ENV[''LC_TIME''] = ''C''
>   require ''acts_as_ferret''
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Starburger
> 
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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Jens Kraemer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Afair this issue has come up a few times now, always on Windows
> machines...
Is there a hope that this problem will be gone under Suse Linux? This 
will be the production env.

Starburger

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:39:05PM +0200, Star Burger
wrote:
> Jens Kraemer wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Afair this issue has come up a few times now, always on Windows
> > machines...
> 
> Is there a hope that this problem will be gone under Suse Linux? This 
> will be the production env.
Definitely. I don''t have one at hand but here (Ubuntu) your snippet
caused no problem.

Jens


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Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66
kraemer at webit.de | www.webit.de
 
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Yeah! No problem with Suse 10.



Jens Kraemer wrote:
> 
> Definitely. I don''t have one at hand but here (Ubuntu) your
snippet
> caused no problem.
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
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