How to search Dash-Character?

[ACTRAiSER]

Hello there,

i have plenty of locations which have a dash in their name like "St
Leon-Rot" . If people search for 'Leon' or 'Rot' the location is
found, but "Leon-Rot" isn't. I think the Dash is interpreted as a word
seperator rather as part of the whole term.

What configuration is necessary to make sphinx "dash-aware" ?

Greets
-act

[ACTRAiSER]

For the sake of completeness... i found the ignore_chars-option in the
Sphinx-documentation but using a setup in my sphinx.yml like the
following does not help finding "Leon-Rot":

development:
max_matches: 100000
mem limit: 128M
enable_star: 1
min_prefix_len: 1
ignore_chars: U+AD

Greets
-act

[Pat Allan]

I think you'll want to add the character to your charset_table value
instead (don't forget to grab the default values for utf-8 to ensure
you don't overwrite that:
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.8.html#conf-charset-table
http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/advanced_config.html (see the
last item on the page)

Cheers

--
Pat

[Rocco Di Leo]

Thanks Pat! This helped a lot!

Greets
-act

[Thibaut Barrère]

> What configuration is necessary to make sphinx "dash-aware" ?

I pasted my sphinx.yml extract here:

http://gist.github.com/186253

just followed the advices by Pat and Rocco - it took a bit of
searching to understand what was needed exactly, so here it is in case
it's useful to someone else.

Thibaut
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