Does Jackrabbit support right-to-left languages such as Hebrew?

[Smart Pigeon <zw...@yahoo.com>]

 I tried to search some Hebrew docs and it seems it does not work. Can
anyone tell me if Jackrabbit supports the right-to-left languages? 
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RE: Does Jackrabbit support right-to-left languages such as Hebrew?

[Ard Schrijvers <a....@onehippo.com>]

Hello Jukka et al,

> Hi,
> 
> That's a bit trickier as Jackrabbit only uses a single Lucene 
> Analyzer for a workspace. You should be fine if you don't 
> mind using something like the StandardAnalyzer for all your 
> content. The drawback is that the index won't then deal as 
> well with non-English synonyms, stop words, plurals, etc.
> 
> It might be possible, though probably quite tricky, to make 
> the Analyzer configurable per node (or subtree), so you may 
> want to file a feature request for that.

This feature has been added already quite some time ago, see JCR-1079.
See [1] at the bottom for how to configure a different analyzer per
property

-Ard

[1] http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/IndexingConfiguration

> 
> BR,
> 
> Jukka Zitting
> 

Re: Does Jackrabbit support right-to-left languages such as Hebrew?

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Smart Pigeon <zw...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Could  you be kindly to tell me how to do this kind configuration? Can we
> have both left-to-right and right-to-left language docs in the same
> repository

Yes, that should be no problem.

> and if so, can we formulate quries that can do the searches such
> as a phrase in either language?

That's a bit trickier as Jackrabbit only uses a single Lucene Analyzer
for a workspace. You should be fine if you don't mind using something
like the StandardAnalyzer for all your content. The drawback is that
the index won't then deal as well with non-English synonyms, stop
words, plurals, etc.

It might be possible, though probably quite tricky, to make the
Analyzer configurable per node (or subtree), so you may want to file a
feature request for that.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

Re: Does Jackrabbit support right-to-left languages such as Hebrew?

[Smart Pigeon <zw...@yahoo.com>]

Thank you very much for your reply.  

Could  you be kindly to tell me how to do this kind configuration? Can we
have both left-to-right and right-to-left language docs in the same
repository  and if so, can we formulate quries that can do the searches such
as a phrase in either language?


Jukka Zitting wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Smart Pigeon <zw...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I tried to search some Hebrew docs and it seems it does not work. Can
>> anyone tell me if Jackrabbit supports the right-to-left languages?
> 
> Jackrabbit is mostly language-independent, as all strings and names
> are stored in Unicode. The only part that's somewhat
> language-dependent is the full text indexing, but you can reconfigure
> the index if the standard analyzer doesn't work well enough for your
> language.
> 
> BR,
> 
> Jukka Zitting
> 
> 

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Re: Does Jackrabbit support right-to-left languages such as Hebrew?

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Smart Pigeon <zw...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I tried to search some Hebrew docs and it seems it does not work. Can
> anyone tell me if Jackrabbit supports the right-to-left languages?

Jackrabbit is mostly language-independent, as all strings and names
are stored in Unicode. The only part that's somewhat
language-dependent is the full text indexing, but you can reconfigure
the index if the standard analyzer doesn't work well enough for your
language.

BR,

Jukka Zitting