[TYPO3-english] multilingual Search

[Historia]

Thanks a lot.

I am working with CMS for 12 years but I am not real system 
administrator and there is already the issue of installing solr and 
Tomcat on my server. I will need a quiet week to install that and test 
it. I have it already on my two local machines, but I have to update my 
servers to php 5.3 before I will go to install solr.

For me solr is absolutely oversized. I have a few dozen searchs per hour 
on all my websites combined. Therefore another solution would be fine 
for me. I also read that I have to adapt the search conversion tables. 
Amharic has 4 different "h" characters and 2 different "s" and 3 
different representation for vowels. So it will be a long development 
process for the solr technical basis to make it even usable.

Typo3 is also working with utf-8 and I solved all other issues with 
that. The standard search is working easily, but I find no recent 
configuration manual for that. The problem is that I am working with a 
newsslider and the standard search is only going for tt_content. So I 
have to extend that. But that will be much less work and have the same 
reward for me.

indexed search somehow converts the utf-8 tables in something which 
doesnt show properly in the backend. I always wonder how they do that 
with cyrillic, greek, persian, thai, chinese or japanese. There should 
be the same issues.

At the moment the project is realized with indexed search in the english 
version and standard search in the amharic version.

Herbert



Am 22/1/2012 6:35 ከሰዓት, schrieb Dirk Wenzel:
> Hi Herbert,
> I don't know wether solr works with Amharic or not. But since it works
> completly with utf-8 - it should.
> If you'll test it, you should probably use the current svn version (of the
> extension) from forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-solr. After fiddeling
> around quite a while with version 1.3.0 from TER I tried this one and got it
> running with decent effort.
>
> I found it a bit difficult to understand how to setup a new core (for my
> alternative language). So don't hesitate and ask.
>
> By the way: there is a solr mailing list.
>
> Cheers
> Dirk
>
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:27:09 +0100, Historia wrote
> (in article<mailman.1.1325669241.22472.typo3-english at lists.typo3.org>):
>
>> I am looking for a search which works in Amharic. Quite an unusual
>> language, but working without problems now.
>> I use Typo3 4.5.5 on a linux suse 11.1 root server. Everything is in utf-8.
>>
>> I have tested search, indexed search, mh_ajaxsearch and Yatse. No
>> results for the amharic version. Only search is working, but not with
>> tt_news and the titles are from the English version instead of the Amharic.
>>
>> My last test with Solr never worked. Is there any other search working
>> with non western languages?
>>
>> Herbert
>
>