[Zope] Problems with ZCatalog-indexing

[Tobias Kiesling]

Hello all,

I've got some problems with indexing in ZCatalog.

First of all it doesn't seem possible to index words containing any
non-ascii characters (most important german umlauts). On zope.org the
only info on charactersets I found was, that there are some supported
ones, but I couldn't find out which these are.

How is it possible to have a correct indexed catalog on a german site ?

The second problem is related with the first one, but not restricted to
german characters.
Words where a hyphen appears, e.g. names like 'Hans-Dietrich', aren't
indexed at all, in the example 'Hans-Dietrich'
cannot be found on the site, but 'Hans' or 'Dietrich' cannot be found,
either.

If I cannot fix these Problems, the ZCatalog is unusable in the site, as
there are a lot of important keywords using umlauts or containig hyphens.

Thanks for your help,

Tobias Kiesling
(tobias@stat.uni-muenchen.de)