{BUGS} Search engine bugs

[David A. Bayly]

Previously I wrote

>
>
>2) When a search string includes high ascii characters they are 
>deleted because  string.dropNonAlphas is applied to every word  in 
>the search string.  The indexing process also discards all high 
>ascii characters, so  the search engine doesn't work for most 
>European languages besides English.
>

Well it seems that this is an OS X bug.

On OS X,

string.dropnonalphas("ü:)   //<--- this is an uumlaat

yields an empty string. On OS 9 it returns the character as it should.

I don't have a windows OS where I can test this.

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- David Bayly.       Programmer and digest reader.     dbayly at udena dot ch
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