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2006 Sep 21
4
strange matching: maybe a multilanguage collation problem?
...of names of places all around the world. Mostly we''re quite happy with it, and have been able to graft on our own particular required functionality with just a little tweaking. There''s one strange problem, though: We''ve got a place in Cyprus called "Gazima\304\237usa" (that \304\237 is a multibyte character in UTF-8), and it matches a search for "usa". We''d rather it not match. I don''t know that much about Ferret or about this sort of indexing in general, but is this because Ferret views \304\237 as a word break, and spl...