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This tutorial uses "U.S. Presidents" as a topic to demo features of SiteSearch Indexer.
1789 - 1897
1901 - 2001
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  any words
  all words
  exact phrase
  

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European Characters

There are a few standards in displaying european characters on the web. Most common are: ASCII, UTF 8/16 and ISO-8859-1 (also called Latin 1). When SiteSearch Indexer indexes a page, it considers all text straight ASCII. Text typed into the search field is straight ASCII. So, if you use a standard like ISO-8859-1 and search for "über", it won't match its ISO-8859-1 equivalent "über".

Until the standards are truly standardized, the most I can do to correct this problem is offer a specialized version of searchFunctions.js that converts characters entered in the search field from ASCII to ISO-8859-1.

For instance, if you type "über" into the search field, it will be converted to match "über" in the actual search.

In order for this to really work, be sure you use ISO-8859-1 entities of European characters in your web pages. Check here for a reference:

You can see this script in action here. Just click "Servicesiden" then "Søg her på webstedet" then search for something like "håndterer".

Search platform Download file
Client-side javascript search Click here to download the ISO-8859-1 compliant searchFunctions.js file. It is contained in a winzip archive called "searchFunctions_euro_js.ZIP".
Server-side ASP search Click here to download the ISO-8859-1 compliant searchresults.asp file. It is contained in a winzip archive called "searchresults_euro_asp.ZIP".
After downloading the appropriate zip file, extract the enclosed file into the search folder of your web project.