Search not working

[edwardcyh]

Greetings all,

I am fairly sure that I am the only one on the board using Actinic on non-Germanic and non-Romanic languages.

I like the software and have been able to make Actinic working with Traditional Chinese. Now I am having some issues with search. Whenever I search for an item in English, the engine returns the correct results; however, when I start using Chinese, no result is produced.

The site being built has over 1200 DVD & VCD titles, so the ability to search is critical.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Edward

[cdicken]

All the search terms are added to an index file called fulltext.fil. You will see when you open it in Notepad that it is pretty strange looking - and I'm afraid I have no idea how to alter it.

The thing to do would be to add your traditional Chinese characters into the 'View | Search Settings | Word Character Set' field, but I don't think they will be supported by the application.

You could maybe try adding them into the database - the character set is in the 'Checkout Prompt' table in ActinicCatalog.mdb. Search for 'abcde'.

Make sure you take a backup beforehand though.