I just tried Mayflower search using non-latin characters (searching Arabic words). It comes back with ugly warnings and says non-latin characters are not supported for searching. Mayflower works nicely for searching in English, but would be really awesome if it worked for other languages.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/search.php?q=%D9%85%D9%86%D8...
I wonder if there are plans to add support for other languages?
-Aude
Aude wrote:
I just tried Mayflower search using non-latin characters (searching Arabic words). It comes back with ugly warnings and says non-latin characters are not supported for searching. Mayflower works nicely for searching in English, but would be really awesome if it worked for other languages.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/search.php?q=%D9%85%D9%86%D8... http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/search.php?q=%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%84&t=n
I wonder if there are plans to add support for other languages?
-Aude
I think it may be tokenising only latin1 words. However, if words are separated by spaces, wouldn't be hard to extend it.