We work on german index, we neutralize accents before index i.e. umlauts to 'ae', 'ue'.. Etc and similar what we do at the query time too for an appropriate match.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 4:22 PM Audrey Lorberfeld - audrey.lorberf...@ibm.com <audrey.lorberf...@ibm.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Just wanting to test the waters here – for those of you with search > engines that index multiple languages, do you use ASCII-folding in your > schema? We are onboarding Spanish documents into our index right now and > keep going back and forth on whether we should preserve accent marks. From > our query logs, it seems people generally do not include accents when > searching, but you never know… > > Thank you in advance for sharing your experiences! > > -- > Audrey Lorberfeld > Data Scientist, w3 Search > Digital Workplace Engineering > CIO, Finance and Operations > IBM > audrey.lorberf...@ibm.com > >
