Re: [htdig] Indexing Japanese text

[Jim <li...@yg...>]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Andrej wrote:

> we would like to index a Japanese website. The pages are using utf-8 
> character encoding. The ht://Dig FAQ states that ht://Dig cannot index 
> Japanese pages yet, since they require 16-bit characters, which is not 
> supported by ht://Dig.
>
> Has there been an update lately concerning this problem or do you know of a 
> possible workaround that will enable us to index the pages nonetheless?

I am not aware of any progress in this area. The 3.2.x code still lacks
support for multi-byte characters. There are still plans to add some
level of Unicode support to a future version, but when such a version
might become available is a complete unknown.

Jim