[Zope-dev] Re: What catalog/index to use ...

[Guido van Rossum]

> The problem seems to be that ZCTextIndex indeed does not do the
> splitting "right" if German Umlauts are used. There is no option for
> "Unicode-aware splitter".  Instead of a Vocabulary it uses a
> Lexicon, which just offers two options: "HTML aware splitter" and
> "Whitespace splitter". I haven't tested the whitespace splitter yet,
> but the HTML aware splitter did not do the Umlaut thing right
> without the patch, i.e. it used umlauts as splitting characters ...

That's just what the default ZMI interface for ZCTextIndex offers.
It's easy to add your own splitter by writing a few lines of Python
code.  RTSL.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)