Re: Adding Arabic dictionary for TSearch2.. to_tsvector('arabic'...) doesn't work..

no one ?

/ Moe

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Mohamed <mohamed5432154321(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Ok, thank you all for your help. It has been very valuable. I am starting
> to get the hang of it and almost read the whole chapter 12 + extras but I
> still need a little bit of guidance.
>
> I have now these files :
>
> - A arabic Hunspell rar file (OpenOffice version) wich includes :
> - ar.dic
> - ar.aff
> - An Aspell rar file that includes alot of files
> - A Myspell ( says simple words list )
> - And also Andrews two files :
> - ar.affix
> - ar.stop
>
> I am thinking that I should go with just one of these right and that should
> be the Hunspell? There is an ar.aff file there and Andrews file ends with
> .affix, are those perhaps similiar? Should I skip Andrews ? Use just the
> ar.stop file ?
>
> On the Arabic / English on row basis language search approach, I will skip
> and choose the approach suggested by Oleg :
>
> if arabic and english characters are not overlaped, you can use one index.
>>
>
> The Arabic letters and English letters or words don't overlap so that
> should not be an issue? Will I be able to index and search against both
> languages in the same query?
>
> And also
>
> 1. What language files should I use ?
> 2. How does my create dictionary for the arabic language look like ?
> Perhaps like this :
>
> CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY arabic_dic(
> TEMPLATE = ? , // Not sure what this means
> DictFile = ar, // referring to ar.dic (hunspell)
> AffFile = ar , // referring to ar.aff (hunspell)
> StopWords = ar // referring to Andrews stop file. ( what about Andrews .affix file ? )
>
> // Anything more ?
> );
>
>
> Thanks again! / Moe
>
>