Re: Database language support

"Sing" <sing_at_netvigator.com> wrote in message news:3d6cd717$1_at_shknews01...
> When a database engine claims to be a particular language (say Chinese)
> support, what do it mean? What features should be supported to make the
> claim? Or what can I expect if there is such a claim? I am a bit confused
on
> this.

If you think you are confused, just imagine what the rest of the industry is....

Seriously. When companies say they have "Chinese support", they can mean all sorts of things. They can mean that you can enter Chinese characters by themselves. Good systems should have a Chinese tokenizer that can split Chinese into words. (i.e., put spaces in where the spaces would be if Chinese actually had spaces to assist in searching.) Of course, how well a system does this is varied.

In fact, we hope to have a good Chinese segmentation system available in the not too distant future. (It is simply a matter of moving the final stages to
the top of our "to-do" list and polishing it off..)

Don't know if this helps. But if you have any futher questions, I'd be glad to assist.

-Art

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Art Pollard
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