AltaVista search in various languages

From: Leong Kok Yong (ccelky@valentine.irdu.nus.sg)
Date: Thu Jul 17 1997 - 06:03:55 EDT


hi

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

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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.
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Then why did they bother to introduce the double-byte languages in the
first place when it's not working?!?!



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