Bug#108702: Cannot search for Japanese keyword (at least).

[Yasuhiro Take <take@debian.org>]

Package: listarchives
Severity: wishlist

Glimpse (http://lists.debian.org/search.html) cannot search for a Japanese
keyword. It is caused by the following reason.

1) Japanese emails are usually encoded in ISO-2022-JP.
2) Common webbrowsers send Japanese letters in EUC or Shift-JIS encoding AFAIK.
3) This encoding mismatch leads to fail the search.

The encoding in which a webbrowser send a keyword is not defined or
decided, so the search system needs to first detect what encoding
is the keyword is, and then convert it into ISO-2022-JP encoding,
at least for the search for Japanese list.

I guess this encoding mismatch may happen in Chinese and Korean too, so if
listarchives is planned to provide an internationalized search system,
i'm afraid the problem becomes more difficult.

Good luck!

Thanks,

	hirot