HI, I have a project which need search with Chinese. I think I can make Zcatalog to search Chinese in utf8. So I change Voodoo Kludge Splitter.py to convert the input string to unicode (assume it is utf8) and make a version of split of my own (see the attached splitter.py). I borrow (stolen) from Interscript the utf8 encoding conversion scheme. I separate the chinese with space by hand hoping the Zcatalog will work. After changing these, I have a catalog which looks good : I can see from the volucably the chinese were actually there (except with some which have html encode like < inside the utf8. I generate the search interface, and test it. However, the search of the index terms return nothings. I search most entries found in the vocubalury but none works, those work will return many unwanted results also. What is causing this failure? What I can do to go further? Rgs, Kent Sin --------------------------------- kentsin.weblogs.com kentsin.imeme.net