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Typesense Support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Languages

TLDR Pete inquired about logographic support in typesense. Jason advised that the support is evolving based on feedback and suggested indexing data for testing and providing feedback.

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Pete

04:19 PM

Hello! Our company is really interested in using typesense for our search solution. I am a Sr. PM for a large SAAS company that provides service for the health care industry. Anyone able to give me an indication when logographic support will be available?

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Jason

04:20 PM

👋 May I know which specific languages you’re looking for?

Pete

04:20 PM

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

04:20

Pete

04:20 PM

Kanji specifically for Japanese

Jason

04:24 PM

We’ve been iterating on these languages slowly over the last year based on community feedback, and we’ve heard that Typesense now works reasonably well for Chinese and Korean (as of v0.24.0.rcn15). So any improvements from here would require more feedback from you, so we can address them as we go along.

For Japanese, we made some improvements last year, but we haven’t heard any feedback from users about how it works…

So long story short, we’ve been making iterative improvements for CJK based on community feedback. I’d recommend indexing your data in Typesense (specifically using the locale setting for each field when creating a collection) and seeing how it works. We can then improve further based on your feedback.

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Jason

04:24 PM

We don’t have native speakers of these languages in our core team, so definitely need this feedback to be able to make progress on this front.

Pete

04:51 PM

Cool this helps thanks Jason

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