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Working with Multiple Languages
Internationalizing Your Search
Solution
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NetWare Web Search Server is capable of handling search queries, search
results, templates, and Web content in many languages and character sets.
Web Search can auto-detect languages and character sets, but to ensure a
complete international search solution, you must identify language, country,
and character information throughout your Web Search implementation.
This chapter discusses all of the issues related to supporting multiple
languages from a single search solution.
Customizing your search solution is important only if you want to let your
users conduct language-specific searches. You specify the language of a
template by inserting a language identifier in the META tag of your templates
or HTML files. The language identifier can also be used in Search Results
pages to let users quickly recognize the search results that interest them.
NetWare Web Search Server also lets Web clients specify their locale at the
time the search query is entered. The default Search page illustrates this
feature by auto-detecting a user's locale and selecting the appropriate language
from the Display Language drop-down list. This selection sends two
parameters to the Web Search Server: language and country. The country
parameter is almost always blank. The search engine uses this information to
find locale-specific versions of the templates used to return search results.
To specify the language of a template or of any HTML content that gets
indexed as part of your search site, you must enter a language identifier within
an HTML file's header section. For example, if you wanted to identify a
Russian template, you would add the following META tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ru">
In some cases, such as Traditional and Simplified Chinese, you will need to
use the two-character, uppercase country codes. For example:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh-TW">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh-CN">
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