On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 04:50:38 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
> To: Multiple Recipients of <unicode@unicode.org>
> Subject: Re: AltaVista search in various languages
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Leong Kok Yong wrote:
>
> > Recently, i found out that AltaVista can allows user to search in various
> > languages. I was delighted and went straight to http://altavista.digital.com
> >
> > But when i type in double-byte Chinese GB or Big5 characters, it return
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> > No documents match the query.
> > The term does not appear in the index.
> > You might want to check the spelling.
> >
> > It is not currently possible to search for multi-byte characters within a
> > Chinese document.
> > -----------------------------------
> >
> > Then why did they bother to introduce the double-byte languages in the
> > first place when it's not working?!?!
>
> There may be several problems:
>
> - The browser supports GB/Big-5/... in output (i.e. on the page), but
> not in input fields (because there it's a lot more work). This
> applied to a lot of browsers; I don't know whether it has
> improved.
>
Browsers like Netscape 4 can handle the job well.
Coz i tried it on other search engine like e.g.
www.goyoyo.com
www.whatsite.com
> - There are some problems identifying the character encoding ("charset")
> a request (URL query part).
>
> - There may be some problems with the search engine (it has to be
> changed to correctly work with GB/Big-5/...).
>
> Even just having the ability to search for ASCII in Chinese documents
> can be useful, although it is of course of limited value.
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