WAIS and ISO-8859-1

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1 total messages Started by Janne Himanka Wed, 20 Jul 1994 09:16

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Author: Janne Himanka
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 09:16

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I have tried to index and use a Finnish bibliographic database with two
versions of WAIS: freeWAIS-0.3 and freewais-0.2-sf. The database uses
ISO-8859-1 character set, and >127 characters appear frequently.  The
database is in one 2MB file, and I used -t para with waisindex.  There
were minor complaints when the index was built (.syn missing,
total_word_count missing) but all the files got built. I first started
thinking something was wrong when waisserver couldn't find some words I
knew were there. These words didn't contain >127 chars.  It found some
words, but not others, and I couldn't see any pattern in this. When
records were displayed, the >127 characters were omitted.  Could this
quirky behaviour be due to waisindex's inability to handle 8-bit
characters? This would be surprising, especially since freewais-0.2sf
is partially German-made. I am rather sure that the problem lies with
waisindex, not waisserver, because the behaviour was the same when I
used a perl script instead of waisserver to search the WAIS database.

Are there other non-commercial alternatives to these two, or any
suggestions as to how I could get by this problem?

Janne Himanka
http://syy.oulu.fi/jh.html

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