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Typesense Support for Non-English Languages

TLDR omega enquired about Typesense's support for non-English languages. Kishore Nallan suggested using separate fields for different languages.

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Sep 13, 2022 (13 months ago)
omega
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omega
06:58 AM
Hey, discovered Typesense yesterday, and was trying to figure out how support for other languages than english was? things like stemming for instance? can you have documents with different languages in the same collection/index?
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
07:02 AM
👋 Typesense relies largely on prefix search and typo correction, rather than explicit stemming. This will for more European languages, including English.

To have multiple languages, the current recommendation is to have them in separate fields, e.g. title_en and title_es etc.
omega
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omega
07:03 AM
ok, thanks for the quick answer 🙂