Re: [htdig] problems with fuzzy searches in 3.2.0b5

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Roman Maeder:
> I am playing around with 3.2.0b5 on my test and development machine and
> I am running into some problems with prefix searching with the "de" locale.
...
> locale: de_DE.ISO8859-1
> search_algorithm:	exact:1 prefix:0.6 endings:0.4
> 
> as well as custom endings dictionaries (according to FAQ 4.10),
> gives me problems with prefix searching. If I search for "word" (without the
> quotes) it finds the given word, but with "wor*" or so, it never finds *any*
> matches. The value of $(LOGICAL_WORDS) in the nomatch output template shows
> me that it did expand all possible words, but it doesn't find any pages!
> Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be? This is on
> sparc-sun-solaris2.8

You may need to use a comma rather than a period for the decimal point
when in that locale.  E.g.:

locale: de_DE.ISO8859-1
search_algorithm:	exact:1 prefix:0,6 endings:0,4

See http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/attrs.html#locale
and http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/attrs.html#search_algorithm

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)