Re: tlug: mail archive and search software

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

>>>>> "ash" == Andrew S Howell <andy@example.com> writes:
    ash> I vaguely remember someone mentioning chasen or some such
    ash> thing to do the indexing. Is this the thing to use?

    Stephen> IIRC, Chasen does Japanese morphology, and thus is very
    Stephen> useful as part of a backend.  It is not itself an indexer
    Stephen> AFAIK.

I'm not sure my technical or linguistic abilities are up to putting
together a search engine with chasen...

    Stephen> I think that probably what you recall is a discussion of
    Stephen> stuff like glimpse, which does have a Japanese port.  I
    Stephen> don't think it's Chasen-enabled, though.

I had a look at the glimpse home page, but I didn't see anything about
Japanese support. I kind of remember it _not_ supporting Japanese. Is
there a Japanese patch for it?

Thanks,

	Andy
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