Searching Chinese in Sitecore using dtSearch/Lucene

Were looking at building a Chinese site (Traditional开发者_运维知识库 and Simplified) in Sitecore and was wondering where the possibilities for supporting the search.

From what I have been able to gather so far:

• Lucene doesn't support it out of the box but can be extended through development or third party to allow Chinese search
• dtSearch should support it but from what I've been able to find it is unreliable/untested.

Does anyone have any experience using Chinese language in Sitecore and performing searches? Has anyone had any experience implementing Chinese into Lucene?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers, Phil

Cove Enterprise Search supports Chinese and integrates well with Sitecore. You should double check their full language support list if you have other needs.

http://www.coveo.com/en/technology-platform/coveo-platform-version-6-5/connectivity/web-site-search/sitecore-cms

Supported languages on Page 4: http://www.coveo.com/~/media/Files/Support/Knowledge-Base/information-articles/Administration-Tool-Help_Coveo-Enterprise-Search6.ashx

Sitecore 7 ContentSearch features could help you out of the troubles; the search functionality supports many different languages including Chinese, Arabic, and non-UTF based characters.

I have tried to search Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) in sitecore 7 backend search tab. If you have played sitecore 7, you may notice that every content item has a new search tab. You can try to create a content item with 2 different language versions (zh-TW, zh-CN: Traditional, Simplified), then search some Chinese keyword in the search tab, it works fine.

For different language analyzers configuration, please find the Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene.DefaultIndexConfiguration.config in the App_Config/Include folder, there already defined many language analyzers for searching, you can also add the Chinese analyzer (Luncene.Net.Analysis.Cn.ChineseAnalyzer).

There is a "developer's_guide_to_item_buckets_and search_sc7" document on the sdn site(http://sdn.sitecore.net), it provides more details.

Hope these can help you.