[sword-devel] search failing in Hebrew modules

[Troy A. Griffitts]

SWORDWeb seems to work fine.  I'd appreciate it if we could have 
construction fact input instead of useless statements like "it's SWORD's 
  fault".  Thanks.

http://crosswire.org/study/wordsearchresults.jsp?searchTerm=שָׁמָיִם

Anyone willing to put the time into investigating if proper UTF-8 is 
being sent into the SWORD engine from the copy and paste from Xiphos?

	-Troy.



Matthew Talbert wrote:
>> I don't know for sure if this is the same bug, but I know that CLucene
>> has severe issues (read: complete inability) with Unicode support.  If
>> you are using a CLucene indexed module, this could definitely be a
>> contributing factor to the problem.  In BibleTime we don't use SWORD's
>> search features, we re-implement that ourselves with CLucene, and our
>> result is a similar problem with Unicode modules that have indecies.
> 
> The searches work nearly the same for indexed and non-indexed
> searches, so it's SWORD, not clucene. I would be interested in hearing
> what Unicode issues clucene has. The only one I recall is the
> inability to prefix a search with a wildcard (which is very useful for
> languages such as French).
> 
> Matthew
> 
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