[aseek-users] utf-8 vs. unicode

From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 03:43:14 EST


since aspseek 1.2.5 there is the new utf-8 storage mode.

it says that utf-8 will reduce memory and harddrive space and increase
indexing and
search speed. now i have two questions:

1) with index -b can an existing index/database be converted to utf-8. can
this be
    done with a productive index? you also have to set up a special config
entry in
    searchd/aspseek.conf. what happens during conversion? can the database
still
    be searched or do i have a downtime. at the moment we have indexed at
about
    150.000 webpages.

2) utf-8 will be most efficient with us-ascii. what happens when there are
also
     words with special chars like the german umlauts. will there still be
all those
     improvements?

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