Setting language identifiers

The following topics describe how to specify language identifiers for your application.

In an Oracle Endeca Server application, language can be specified in two places:
Keep in mind that the following language-identification scenarios are not supported:

Language effect on documents and searches

For every document, the language of the corresponding PDR determines:
  • How it is tokenized
  • How it is normalized
  • In what language word forms are returned for its terms
  • Which language's wordform expansion indexes do the returned forms contribute to
  • Which language's spelling dictionary its terms contribute to
For every search, the language configured on the search determines:
  • How it is tokenized
  • How it is normalized
  • In what language are word forms returned for its terms
  • Which language's spelling dictionary to use for spelling-related re-queries