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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)

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Laanfor

05:26 AM

hi, how about Chinese language support for typsence?

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Jason

05:46 AM

Hi Laanfor, we’re tracking progress for CJK support here: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/228

Laanfor

06:00 AM

ok, thanks

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Kishore Nallan

07:02 AM

Laanfor We already have some basic support (though we don't document it). You can see some of the snippets here: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/288

Essentially 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.

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