Chinese Language Support in Typesense
TLDR Laanfor inquired about Chinese language support for Typesense. Jason and Kishore Nallan provided information on its progress, including undocumented options.
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Jul 15, 2021 (30 months ago)
Laanfor
05:26 AMJason
05:46 AMLaanfor
06:00 AMKishore Nallan
07:02 AMEssentially you just have to provide a
"locale":"zh"
to any field containing Chinese text. I've not yet gotten a chance to review the feedback on that Github issue from another community member. But I gather that it works reasonably well.1
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