Most databases only RECENTLY have set up langauges per column. Languages per ENTRY in a column? I don't think any support that yet. How would you get that information from a database with the corresponding language attribute?
Dennis Gearon Signature Warning ---------------- EARTH has a Right To Life, otherwise we all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Wed, 3/24/10, Teruhiko Kurosaka <k...@basistech.com> wrote: > From: Teruhiko Kurosaka <k...@basistech.com> > Subject: Re: If you could have one feature in Solr... > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 11:36 AM > (Sorry for very late response on this > topic.) > > On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Adrien Specq wrote: > > > - langage attribute for each field > > I was thinking about it and it was one of my wishes. > Currently, Solr practically requires that we have > a field for each natural language that an application > supports. If the app needs to support English, French > and > German, we would have to have title_en, title_fr, and > title_de > (suffixes are ISO 2-letter lang codes) instead of just > a title field. This isn't pretty. > > What if we want to support 15 languages? It would be > much > better if we can have just one title field and language > information associated with the value. > > But after I thought about it a bit deeper, I think the > current ugly solution is actually practical. This is > because > most users want to find documents of the languages they > understand. So if a user indicate they understand > English and > German only, we just need to search title_en and title_de. > > Maybe I'm missing something... > > ---- > Teruhiko "Kuro" Kurosaka, 415-227-9600 x122 > RLP + Lucene & Solr = powerful search for global > contents > >
