On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:44:20PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) > Subject: Re: enable searching East Asian words at search.debian.org > Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:54:58 +0200 > > > My understanding of Josip mail is that when investigating your > > instructions about mnogosearch, he wondered how input text has > > to be encoded when filling search form. This is a good question, > > search page should tell which encoding to use when searching for > > non-English words. > > Yes, I know. The solution is to write the search page in UTF-8, > which has been available since last December when Craig and I > discussed about this problem. > > For example, I can search an Russian word "Novosti" (of course in > Cyrillic)
The point is: how are Cyrillic words passed by the web browser to the search engine? Are they encoded in ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R or UTF-8 charsets? [...] > Also, I can input Japanese words. However, there will be no results > for Japanese words because of problems I wrote. Yes, I am pretty sure that Josip was investigating these problems when he sent his mail and will implement your solution. Denis
