I've now finished merging in the new snowball utf-8 stemmers, except for some tweaking I need to do to enable the finnish and lovins stemmers to work within the new framework. The QueryParser and omindex/scriptindex now include apostrophes in terms, in line with changes to the english stemmer since the version Xapian 0.9.9 uses. There are still some minor things to be done, but the current state of SVN trunk is pretty good, and wider testing would certainly be useful at this point, so if you're interested please give it a spin and let us know how you get on. As before, this wiki page summarises what's left to do: http://wiki.xapian.org/Utf8Support I've also made a start on a todo list for 1.0: http://wiki.xapian.org/TodoFor1_2e0 I'm pretty sure that's incomplete though. Cheers, Olly