Re: Database language support

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

So far, I just assume that it can store/import/export without problem. And the tool bundled as well are tested without problem. I am not quite sure how other people think. Just get different answer from different people ;-)

> 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.

Actually, I am wondering whether indexing (sorting) should be one of the features to be supported to claim a specific language support. Let's say Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), the character should be sorted in stroke count order or radical stroke order. Japanese, phonetic order?

For the words (phrase), it is another complication.

> 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..)

I wish it will be tomorrow. ;-) And my next question is where I can find the product. <g> Received on Thu Aug 29 2002 - 08:03:29 CEST