Hello! After some period of ignorance I fimally touched ZCatalog. I started experiments and it worked perfectly. So I tried to catalog a production service. It worked, but didn't do searches with russian letters, where on debugging host it searched russian texts well. I asked Russian community if someone have an idea. To my surprise few people reported that ZCatalog works on Linux with russian texts, but not on FreeBSD, Solaris or NT. Wow! My debugging host is really linux box. I started to do experiments. I have Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD - all run Zope 2.3.0 with koi8-r locale (-L ru_RU.KOI8-R). After some experiments I found it's true - catalog searches russian texts only on Linux. One of our community suggested http://www.zope.org/Members/kslee/VoodooKludgeSplitter/ reporting he used it on NT successfully. I installed VKSplitter on Linux and Solaris and reindexed catalogs. On linux nothing changed. On Solaris the catalog started to search on russian texts. Before installing VKSplitter on a production server (FreeBSD) I want to ask - any idea what is wrong with Splitter.c and why it works on Linux? The code in Splitter.c looks good - all neccessary locale code is there, and char to unsigned char conversion... Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.