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Thanks for this useful search engine.

The accents ("à" in french for exemple) are encoded as "à" by html editors.

To get your search engine dealing with it, I put the following lines in populate.php :

/* Foreign site : convert french characters made by html editors : */

$patterns[0] = "/ /";
$patterns[1] = "/à/";
$patterns[2] = "/â/";
$patterns[3] = "/é/";
$patterns[4] = "/è/";
$patterns[5] = "/ê/";
$patterns[6] = "/î/";
$patterns[7] = "/ù/";
$patterns[8] = "/û/";
$patterns[9] = "/ç/";
$patterns[10] = "/œ/";
$patterns[11] = "/€/";
$patterns[12] = "/©/";

$replacements[0] = " ";
$replacements[1] = "à";
$replacements[2] = "â";
$replacements[3] = "é";
$replacements[4] = "è";
$replacements[5] = "ê";
$replacements[6] = "î";
$replacements[7] = "ù";
$replacements[8] = "û";
$replacements[9] = "ç";
$replacements[10] = "œ";
$replacements[11] = "€";
$replacements[12] = "©";

$buf = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $buf);

BETWEEN LINE

$buf = ereg_replace('/&\w;/', '', $buf);

AND LINE

/* Extract all words matching the regexp from the current line: */

It's not big deal but it works and it is easy to adapt to foreign languages.

Regards,

Louis
http://www.interactive-trails.com