Re: enable searching East Asian words at search.debian.org
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:26:30PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From: barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)
> Subject: Re: enable searching East Asian words at search.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 13:45:08 +0200
>
> > > For example, I can search an Russian word "Novosti" (of course in
> > > Cyrillic)
> >
> > The point is: how are Cyrillic words passed by the web browser to the
> > search engine?
> > Are they encoded in ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R or UTF-8 charsets?
>
> UTF-8, i.e., the same encoding as the search page. For example,
> the previous example:
>
> http://search.debian.org/?q=%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8&ps=10&o=0&m=all&g=
>
> The first 6 bytes read:
>
> %D0%9D -> U+041D (CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN)
> %D0%BE -> U+043E (CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O)
> %D0%B2 -> U+0432 (CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER VE)
Hmmm I tend to disagree. I tried with the French word for 'election',
which is also 'election' but first 'e' being e-acute.
In a ISO-8859-15 environment, I enter this word on search.debian.org and
select the French language, and am redirected to
http://search.debian.org/?q=%C3%A9lection&ps=10&o=0&m=all&g=fr
which gives 46 pages.
If now I run
$ export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
$ xterm
go to search.debian.org in this window and cut'n'paste this word from
another window, I am redirected to
http://search.debian.org/?q=%C3%83%C2%A9lection&ps=10&o=0&m=all&g=fr
which means that e-acute has been converted twice, and no pages are
found. Am I doing something wrong?
Denis
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