no one ? / Moe
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Mohamed <mohamed5432154...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ok, thank you all for your help. It has been very valuable. I am starting > to get the hang of it and almost read the whole chapter 12 + extras but I > still need a little bit of guidance. > > I have now these files : > > - A arabic Hunspell rar file (OpenOffice version) wich includes : > - ar.dic > - ar.aff > - An Aspell rar file that includes alot of files > - A Myspell ( says simple words list ) > - And also Andrews two files : > - ar.affix > - ar.stop > > I am thinking that I should go with just one of these right and that should > be the Hunspell? There is an ar.aff file there and Andrews file ends with > .affix, are those perhaps similiar? Should I skip Andrews ? Use just the > ar.stop file ? > > On the Arabic / English on row basis language search approach, I will skip > and choose the approach suggested by Oleg : > > if arabic and english characters are not overlaped, you can use one index. >> > > The Arabic letters and English letters or words don't overlap so that > should not be an issue? Will I be able to index and search against both > languages in the same query? > > And also > > 1. What language files should I use ? > 2. How does my create dictionary for the arabic language look like ? > Perhaps like this : > > CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY arabic_dic( > TEMPLATE = ? , // Not sure what this means > DictFile = ar, // referring to ar.dic (hunspell) > AffFile = ar , // referring to ar.aff (hunspell) > StopWords = ar // referring to Andrews stop file. ( what about Andrews > .affix file ? ) > > // Anything more ? > ); > > > Thanks again! / Moe > >
