Re: Cyrillic (8-bit ?!!) database

[mikeh@minivend.com]

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Quoting Plamen Petkov (plamendp@techno-link.com):
> 
> Folks, I'm giving up .... 
> 
> I can't 'search' for cyrillic... don't laugh on me... I'm not a newbiew
> in Perl/locale/POSIX ..but..
> 
> 
> No matter why (actualy, it's because of *THIS* problem), but last night
> I installed a  FRESH NEW 'simple' demo from MV distribution.
> 
> Then I JUST replaced some words in  'products.asc' with  some CYRILLIC
> text ...
> Then I run the mv server...
> Then I call the search form...
> Then I enter THE cyrillic text to be searched...
> 
> and the results page gave me a
> 
> 
> "No matches" answer...
> 

This is becoming an FAQ. 

Set mv_substring_match to "yes" (su=yes). The problem is that your
machine is not correctly set for locale. If you have this be the
last line in catalog.cfg:

Locale  ru_RU default

Then MiniVend *should* work with Cyrillic, even to the extent of
recognizing the proper boundary characters for word matching. However,
I have found that locales are often not properly set.

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