Namazu-devel-en(old)

[Makoto Fujiwara <makoto@xxxxx>]

Navneet> 1. For Japanese documents Namazu stores indexes for the searched text in kana hence converts all Kanji's
Navneet> to kana. Therefore the search cannot differentiate between those two different Kanji charcaters. Is this
Navneet> true?  

NO, the first assumption is NO. NMZ.* files stores two bytes charactors
as it is.

Navneet> 2. Namazu uses software called nkf for Japanese processing. NKF 1.71 supports the following encoding -
Navneet> 7-bit JIS, MS-kanji (Shift_JIS) or EUC.

Yes:

Navneet> It does not support UTF-8. I heard NKF 2.01 onwards supports UTF-8 but the recommended version of NKF for
Navneet> Namazu 2.0 is NKF 1.71??? 

Namazu does not support UTF-8 internally.
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Makoto Fujiwara, 
Chiba, Japan, Narita Airport and Disneyland prefecture.