Full text search problem in SQL Server and Index Server

[Christian Allaire]

Hi,

We are using full text search in a web application and the noise dictionnary
of SQL Server does not seam to work properly. The application supports both
french an english searches. In french the noise words are picked-up at
indexing build time (they should not) and when searching they are not
stripped out of the sentence.

In english the search gives an error like if we had entered only noise words
in our sentence. So we can not use any noise words in english. I dont know
if the noise dictionnaries (noise.dat or noise.enu) are used when building
the indexes in english.

The same behaviour seems to be there when using Index Server full-text
search.

Basically I have two questions:

1- How do we implement multilingual full-text searches, and how does SQL
Server know which noise dictionnary to use ?
2- Are there any know problems with these products ?

Thanks

Christian Allaire