[Koha] StopWords List

[Chris Cormack]

On 6 October 2010 12:33, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
>> On 6 October 2010 12:22, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
>>>> Are you using zebra or nozebra .. the stopwords syspref has no effect
>>>> if zebra is on, and in fact is due to be deprecated
>>>> The text in 3.01.00.145 says "Ignore/Don't Ignore stopwords specified
>>>> in Koha when searching. (Only applies when Zebra is off)."
>>>
>>> Chris, that sounds strange for me. I had problems searching for the
>>> term "ía". The problem vanished when I set QueryRemoveStopwords to
>>> OFF, I'm using 3.0.X with Zebra ON.
>>>
>> Sounds like that message is totally wrong then .. what version Tomas?
>
> We are using 3.0.6 + some backports from 3.0.X trunk. The problem
> existed at least since 3.0.2. The default stopwords list includes 'i'
> and I assumed that it had to do... On instances with that setting off
> we didn't have the problem which, to be specific, was: you could
> search for 'metodolog' and it would match 'metodología', but searching
> for the latter wouldn't.
>

Ahh yeah, that message changed for 3.1.x. I will have to do some testing.

I think remove stopwords is off for zebra all the time now, I will
confirm tonight and let you know

Chris