I am finishing up on what is probably my largest and most complex development to date. It is a multi-site, multi-language install with more to follow after delivery. One of my last remaning issues is with regards to the search facility on non-english sites, in particular the French.

We have a tag search that is returning the tags without the original punctuation so Oeuf d'or becomes Oeuf dor  which is obviously not the same thing. We are using the StandardAnalyzer which I understood to support such punctuation?

We have subscribed to the GatheringNodeData event in order to insert tags without the delimeters and to replace spaces for indexing as follow:

          if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(e.Fields["tags"]))
          {
            e.Fields["tags"] = e.Fields["tags"].Replace(" ", "_").Replace(",", " ");
          }

So as you can see we are not changing the original tags in any way other than to replace spaces with an underscore and remove comma delimters.

I should probably also mention that there is a single search index for the site and the configuration is as follows:

ExamineIndex.config

  <ExamineLuceneIndexSets>

  <IndexSet SetName="SiteSearchIndexSet" IndexPath="~/App_Data/TEMP/ExamineIndexes/SiteSearch/">
    <IndexAttributeFields>
      <add Name="id" />
      <add Name="nodeName"/>
      <add Name="path" />
    </IndexAttributeFields>
    <IndexUserFields>
      <add Name="title"/>
      <add Name="summary"/>
      <add Name="body"/>
      <add Name="metaDescription" />
      <add Name="metaKeywords" />
      <add Name="siteId"/>
      <add Name="tags"/>
      <add Name="file" />
    </IndexUserFields>
    <IncludeNodeTypes />
    <ExcludeNodeTypes>
      <add Name="CalloutFolder" />
      <add Name="PanelDonate" />
      <add Name="PanelFeature" />
      <add Name="SiteContainer" />
      <add Name="SlideShow" />
      <add Name="SlideShowSlide" />
    </ExcludeNodeTypes>
  </IndexSet>

</ExamineLuceneIndexSets>

ExamineSettings.config

<Examine>
  <ExamineIndexProviders>
    <providers>

      <add name="SiteSearchIndexer" type="UmbracoExamine.UmbracoContentIndexer, UmbracoExamine"
           runAsync="true"
           supportUnpublished="false"
           supportProtected="false"
           interval="10"
           analyzer="Lucene.Net.Analysis.WhitespaceAnalyzer, Lucene.Net"/>

    </providers>
  </ExamineIndexProviders>

  <ExamineSearchProviders defaultProvider="ExternalSearcher">
    <providers>

      <add name="SiteSearchSearcher" type="UmbracoExamine.UmbracoExamineSearcher, UmbracoExamine"
                       analyzer="Lucene.Net.Analysis.WhitespaceAnalyzer, Lucene.Net" enableLeadingWildcards="true"/>

    </providers>
  </ExamineSearchProviders>

</Examine>

Any help would be much appreciated as I'm sure I'm not the first to encounter this but the documentation for searching with Examine is quite fragmented so as yet I've not found a solution.

Thanks, Simon