-----Original Message----- From: Farzad Farid [mailto:farzy@via.ecp.fr] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 4:53 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] How do I index documents containing accents with ZCatalog?

I was very disappointed on my first try with ZCatalog when I noticed that it cannot properly index documents containing european accents.. The search engine I installed is of course unusable because it cannot find a large number of words in the indexed documents. I am running Zope 2.0.1, Python 1.5.2 and to install ZCatalog I followed the instructions in the ZCatalog howto.

How can I correct this problem?

Try using the z2.py's -L flag to set the locale that the process runs in. In UNIX, you can find out more about locale by doing a 'man locale' (if you have locale installed, of course, any fairly modern unix should, linux and freebsd most definatly). By default, Zope starts up with no special locale settings. By setting a locale option, certain C and Python functions and methods change behavior to make more sense for european and other languages. -Michel