mnoGoSearch supports almost all known 8 bit character sets as well as some multi-byte charsets including Korean euc-kr, Chinese big5 and gb2312, Japanese shift-jis, euc-jp and iso-2022-jp, as well as utf8. Some multi-byte character sets are not supported by default, because the conversion tables for them are rather large that leads to increase of the executable files size. See configure parameters to enable support for these charsets.
mnoGoSearch also supports the following Macintosh chatacter sets: MacCE, MacCroatian, MacGreek, MacRoman, MacTurkish, MacIceland, MacRomania, MacThai, MacArabic, MacHebrew, MacCyrillic, MacGujarati.
It is often necessary to deal with several languages simultaneously. Number of supported languages depends on choice of character set that mnoGoSearch will use to store data. Character set is specified with LocalCharset command.
When UTF-8 is specified in LocalCharset command, you may work with any languages supported in Unicode. That means you may use any number of over 650 languages. However, using UTF-8 may consume large amount of disk space (up to twice for some languages), leading to slower indexation and search.
Since every character set includes latin characters, any character set supports at least two languages - English and one or more other languages. US-ASCII is an exception - it supports only Latin characters.
Note: When using mnoGoSearch in standard (non-UTF-8) mode, you may use as many languages as you like if they all belong to same language group.
Table 7-1. Language groups
Language group | Languages | Character sets |
Group 1 | Western Europe: Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish | ASCII 8, CP437, CP850, CP860, CP1252, ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, MacRoman, MacIceland |
Group 2 | Eastern Europe: Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene | CP852, CP1250, ISO 8859-2, MacCentralEurope, MacRomania, MacCroatian |
Group 4 | Baltic | CP1257, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-13 |
Group 5 | Cyrillic: Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian | CP855, CP866, CP1251, ISO 8859-5, Koi8-r, Koi8-u, MacCyrillic |
Group 6 | Arabic | CP864, CP1256, ISO 8859-6, MacArabic |
Group 7 | Greek | CP869, CP1253, ISO 8859-7, MacGreek |
Group 8 | Hebrew | CP1255, ISO 8859-8, MacHebrew |
Group 9 | Turkish | CP857, CP1254, ISO 8859-9, MacTurkish |
Group 101 | Japanese | Shift-JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP |
Group 102 | Simplified Chinese (PRC) | EUC-GB |
Group 103 | Traditional Chinese (ROC) | Big 5 |
Group 104 | Korean | EUC-KR |
Group 105 | Thai | CP874, TIS 620, MacThai |
Group 106 | Vietnamese | CP1258 |
Group 107 | Indian | MacGujarati |
Unicode | Over 650 languages | UTF-8 (Unicode) |
E.g. in case you search engine is configured to use LocalCharset from the 5th group (Cyrillic), you may index servers containing documents in Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian. Indexing a multi-language document in UTF-8 is possible as well; however indexer will extract and save only cyrillic content from the page. To provide support for over 650 languages, please use LocalCharset utf-8 command.
indexer recodes all documents to the character set specified in the LocalCharset indexer.conf command. Internally recoding is implemented using Unicode. Please note that some recoding may loose some data. For example, recoding between any Greek and Russian charsets looses all national characters. This does not matter for a single language sites. If you want to build multi-lingual search engine use UTF8 character set as a LocalCharset.
You may use BrowserCharset command to choose a charset which will be used to display search results. BrowserCharset may differ from LocalCharset.
Each charset is recognized by a number of its aliases. Web servers can return the same charset in different notation. For example, iso-8859-2, iso8859-2, latin2 are the same charsets. There is support for charsets names aliases which search engine can understand:
Table 7-2. Charsets aliases
iso-8859-1: | CP819, CSISOLATIN, IBM819, ISO-8859-1, ISO-IR-100, ISO_8859-1, ISO_8859-1:1987, L1, LATIN1 |
iso-8859-10: | CSISOLATIN6, ISO-8859-10, ISO-IR-157, ISO_8859-10, ISO_8859-10:1992, L6, LATIN6 |
iso-8859-11: | ISO-8859-11, TIS-620, TIS620, TACTIS |
iso-8869-13: | ISO-8859-13, ISO-IR-179, ISO_8859-13, L7, LATIN7 |
iso-8859-14: | ISO-8859-14, ISO-IR-199, ISO_8859-14, ISO_8859-14:1998, L8, LATIN8 |
iso-8859-15: | ISO-8859-15, ISO-IR-203, ISO_8859-15, ISO_8859-15:1998 |
iso-8859-16: | ISO-8859-16, ISO-IR-226, ISO_8859-16, ISO_8859-16:2000 |
iso-8859-2: | CSISOLATIN2, ISO-8859-2, ISO-IR-101, ISO_8859-2, ISO_8859-2:1987, L2, LATIN2 |
iso-8859-3: | CSISOLATIN3, ISO-8859-3, ISO-IR-109, ISO_8859-3, ISO_8859-3:1988, L3, LATIN3 |
iso-8859-4: | CSISOLATIN4, ISO-8859-4, ISO-IR-110, ISO_8859-4, ISO_8859-4:1988, L4, LATIN4 |
iso-8859-5: | CSISOLATINCYRILLIC, CYRILLIC, ISO-8859-5, ISO-IR-144, ISO_8859-5, ISO_8859-5:1988 |
iso-8859-6: | ARABIC, ASMO-708, CSISOLATINARABIC, ECMA-114, ISO-8859-6, ISO-IR-127, ISO_8859-6, ISO_8859-6:1987 |
iso-8859-7: | CSISOLATINGREEK, ECMA-118, ELOT_928, GREEK, GREEK8, ISO-8859-7, ISO-IR-126, ISO_8859-7, ISO_8859-7:1987 |
iso-8859-8: | CSISOLATINHEBREW, HEBREW, ISO-8859-8, ISO-IR-138, ISO_8859-8, ISO_8859-8:1988 |
iso-8859-9: | CSISOLATIN5, ISO-8859-9, ISO-IR-148, ISO_8859-9, ISO_8859-9:1989, L5, LATIN5 |
armscii-8: | ARMSCII-8 |
big5: | BIG-5, BIG-FIVE, BIG5, BIGFIVE, CN-BIG5, CSBIG5 |
cp1250: | CP1250, MS-EE, WINDOWS-1250 |
cp1251: | CP1251, MS-CYRL, WINDOWS-1251 |
cp1252: | CP1252, MS-ANSI, WINDOWS-1252 |
cp1253: | CP1253, MS-GREEK, WINDOWS-1253 |
cp1254: | CP1254, MS-TURK, WINDOWS-1254 |
cp1255: | CP1255, MS-HEBR, WINDOWS-1255 |
cp1256: | CP1256, MS-ARAB, WINDOWS-1256 |
cp1257: | CP1257, WINBALTRIM, WINDOWS-1257 |
cp1258: | CP1258, WINDOWS-1258 |
cp437: | 437, CP437, IBM437 |
cp850: | 850, CP850, CSPC850MULTILINGUAL, IBM850 |
cp852: | 852, CP852, IBM852 |
cp855: | 855, CP855, IBM855 |
cp857: | 857, CP857, IBM857 |
cp860: | 860, CP860, IBM860 |
cp861: | 861, CP861, IBM861 |
cp862: | 862, CP862, IBM862 |
cp863: | 863, CP863, IBM863 |
cp864: | 864, CP864, IBM864 |
cp865: | 865, CP865, IBM865 |
cp866: | 866, CP866, CSIBM866, IBM866 |
cp869: | 869, CP869, IBM869, CP874, WINDOWS-874 |
euc-kr: | CSEUCKR, EUC-KR, EUCKR |
gb2312: | CHINESE, CSGB2312, CSISO58GB231280, GB2312, GB_2312-80, ISO-IR-58 |
koi8-r: | CSKOI8R, KOI8-R |
koi8-u | KOI8-U |
shift-jis: | CSSHIFTJIS, MS_KANJI, S-JIS, SHIFT-JIS, SHIFT_JIS, SJIS |
cp367: | ANSI_X3.4-1968, ASCII, CP367, CSASCII, IBM367, ISO-IR-6, ISO646-US, ISO_646.IRV:1991, US, US-ASCII |
utf8: | UTF-8, UTF8 |
viscii: | CSVISCII, VISCII, VISCII1.1-1 |
maccyrillic: | MACCYRILLIC, X-MAC-CYRILLIC |
macroman: | MACROMAN, MACINTOSH, CSMACINTOSH, MAC |
MacCentralEurope: | MACCENTRALEUROPE, MACCE |
indexer detects document character set in this order:
"Content-type: text/html; charset=xxx"
<META NAME="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=xxx">
Defaults from "LocalCharset" field in Common Parameters
Since 3.2.0 mnoGoSearch has an automatic charset and language guesser. It currently recognizes more than 70 various charsets and languages. Charset and language detection is implemented using "N-Gram-Based Text Categorization" technique. There is a number of so called "language map" files, one for each language-charset pair. They are installed under /usr/local/mnogosearch/etc/lm/ directory by default. Take a look there to check the list of currently provided charset-language pairs. Guesser works fine for texts bigger than 500 characters. Shorter texts may not be guessed well.
Use Charset indexer.conf command to choose the default charset of indexed servers.
You can set default language for Servers by using DefaultLang indexer.conf variable. This is useful while restricting search by URL language.