Hi, We have such case...we don't want to search in all of those languages at once but just one of them. So we took the approach of different indexes for each language. From what I know it helps not breaking relevance of the stats as well. You know, how much an index is used etc etc.
If you dig in mailling list. This has been discussed quite many times. Andrew McCombe wrote: > Hi > > We have a dataset that contains productname, category and descriptions. The > descriptions can be in one or more different languages. What would be the > recommended way of indexing these? > > My initial thoughts are to index each description as a separate field and > append the language identifier to the field name, for example, three fields > with description_en, description_de, descrtiption_fr. Is this the best > approach or is there a better way? > > Regards > Andrew McCombe > >
