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    • ready to air my TW site , but ... ... ... PROBLEM with search and create wiki page in Greek

    Posted by nektar posts: 28 ☆ ☆ ☆

    I think that there is no use at all if I say what a great job you all do , delivering to the web community a tool like Tiki-Wiki . I met her (I like to think of TikiWiki like a fairy) last year and I realized that my idea of a collaborative wiki site for practical and useful knowledge can come to reality .

    Unfortunately , my site (www.allcanhelp.gr on air just for testing by some friends) has to speak Greek and if I won’t solve the following problems , a whole year of trying will be lost . In written Greek we use accent marks when we write in lower case , but not when we write in capitals . It is obvious that a lower case letter with accent mark has different utf-8 code than the standard lower case letter and the uppercase letter .

    I believe that there is a correlation table somewhere which tells to TW that , for example , letter “S” is the same with letter “s” . So if someone searches for the word “service” , can take results for “service” + “Service” + “SERVICE” .

    If I could find that correlation table I will try to extend it so it can give results in Greek , not only for upper-lower case but for accented-not accented letters (that’s what google does) .

    The same happens when someone is trying to create a wiki page that already exists . If the wiki page title in the database is written in lower case and someone try to create a wiki page with the same title written in uppercase , there will be two wiki pages . This is not happening in English . TW will not create a wiki page titled “service” if a page titled “Service” or “SERVICE” already exists . Instead TW opens the wiki page for editing .

    Please , help me to help spreading TW to the Greek web community . I believe that if TW become more Greek-friendly in search and create modules , she can have great success in Greece .

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    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092 ☆ ☆ ☆

    You are not the only one - the French community that is important in tw has the same problem
    1/ which search?
    - mysql search:
    - tiki search
    2/ which database
    - mysql is case insentive
    - postgres - for which tw will be ready pretty soon is case sentive.
    3/ Do you have multibyte support installed on your server.
    4/ do you have the locale settings correctly set on your server.

    3 and 4 are mandatory

    a/ page case insentive
    - there is an option in the code to search case sensitive or (I think it will be easy to put the opotion in the interface)(see lib/tikilib/php -> get_page_info
    b/ tikisearch + multibyte + locale -> the search should be correct
    I do not think that mysql will work properly - missing some mb_convert in the library...

    Good luck with the tuning
    sylvieg

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    Posted by nektar posts: 28 ☆ ☆ ☆

    thanx for your immediate answer and tips sylvie ,

    if you can , i need to clear some of your advices :
    - i have tw 2.3 and Activated MySQL 'Full-Text' feature in search settings . How can i switch to tiki search and is it possible to solve the problem with the accented/not accented lower case letters ?
    - i have mysqli database and so far tried utf8_unicode_ci and greek_general_ci . Is something else i can do ?
    - multibyte support in my server ???
    - i have uniform server and there is no special local setting except the char set for each database . do i miss smth ???
    - pls , just be more detailed for a + b steps

    thanx again

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