Search Appliance
Syntax: select from options or enter custom mode
(Note: In earlier releases this setting was known as Character Match Mode.)
Sets the character-matching mode for text (keyword) searches. This controls aspects like case-sensitivity, ignoring accents, etc. The selectable values are:
Loose - Ignore case, ignore diacritics (accents),
expand ligatures, ignore width differences. Storage Charset
should be empty or UTF-8, though ISO-8859-1 may
sometimes work. With this mode, not only will a lower-case "e" match an upper-case "E" and vice-versa (ignore case),
but "e" will match "'e" (Unicode U+00E9),
"oe" will match "œ" (U+0153), and full-width
will match half-width characters (for ASCII and katakana).Strict - Ignore case only. "e" will match
"E", but not "'e". Storage Charset
should be empty or UTF-8, though ISO-8859-1 may
sometimes work.Strict ISO-8859-1 - Ignore case only, and assume
Storage Charset is ISO-8859-1. For back-compatibility.
Available only for Text Search Mode.Exact - Match characters exactly, respecting case,
diacritics, width etc. Available only for Attribute Compare Mode.Custom -> - Use the custom mode entered in the
Custom Mode box. This is a comma-separated list composed from the
following tokens; consult Thunderstone tech support for advice:
iso-8859-1 - Assume text is ISO-8859-1 encoded.
Should only be used if Storage Charset is also ISO-8859-1. If this flag is not set, text is assumed to be
UTF-8, though occasional ISO-8859-1 characters will usually be
able to match their UTF-8 equivalents.ignorediacritics - Ignore diacritic marks (accents,
umlauts, etc.). E.g. "e" will match "'e"
(U+00E9) and vice-versa.expandligatures - Expand ligature characters. E.g.
"oe" will match "œ" (U+0153) and vice-versa.
Note that with this flag off, certain ligatures may still be
expanded if necessary for case-folding with ignorecase.ignorewidth - Ignore half-/full-width differences,
e.g. for ASCII and katakana characters.ignorecase - Ignore case differences, e.g. "e" matches "E" and vice-versa; this is the default.
The alternative is respectcase.respectcase - Case-sensitive search, e.g. "e" does not match "E". The alternative is
ignorecase.unicodemulti - Use Unicode case-compare tables,
with multi-character expansions where needed (e.g. for
ligatures). The alternative is ctype or unicodemono.unicodemono - Use Unicode case-compare tables, but
do not expand characters. The alternative is ctype or
unicodemulti.ctype - Use the operating system's ctype.h
case-compare tables. Only codepoints U+0001 through U+00FF
(i.e. single-byte or ISO-8859-1 range) are supported, though
the actual encoding may be ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 depending on
the iso-8859-1 flag. The alternative is
unicodemulti or unicodemono.
Note: Changing the Text Search Mode setting will cause text search indexes to be rebuilt, which may take several minutes or more for large profiles.