Arabic Search with Index Service & ASP.NET Problem

[msfa...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I am using Index Service with ASP.NET. The code is working fine and
returns the expected results when searching for English words. I got
the same results from my ASP.net search page and in "query the
catalog" in the Index Service mmc. I am searching for words contained
in the meta tags in ASP.Net pages.

When i began to search for Arabic words, also contained in meta tags,
I got an error message "The query contained only ignored words" in
"query the catalog" in the Index Service mmc. I made search for this
error, and i found the solution to download Microsoft Arabic Word
Breaker, and i made the required changes to Regional settings. Now
Searching for Arabic words in "query the catalog" in the Index Service
mmc is working fine and returns the expected results, but ASP.NET
Search page still not working with Arabic and gives me the same error
"The query contained only ignored words"?!!

I don't know what to do, and i don't know where is the error exactly?
Is there anyway to tell the query to use Arabic character set?!

'create a connection object and command object, to connect the Index
Server
Dim odbSearch As OleDbConnection = New
OleDbConnection("Provider=""MSIDXS"";Data Source=""custom"";")

Dim cmdSearch As OleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand
'assign connection to command object cmdSearch
cmdSearch.Connection = odbSearch

'Query to search a free text string in the catalog in the
contents of the indexed documents in the catalog
Dim searchText As String = txtSearch.Text.Replace("'", "''")
cmdSearch.CommandText = "select doctitle, filename, vpath,
rank, characterization from custom..scope() where FREETEXT(Contents,
'" & searchText & "') order by rank desc "

odbSearch.Open()
'Try
'execute search query
Dim rdrSearch As OleDbDataReader = cmdSearch.ExecuteReader()
' <<The error

Thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Mohamed Salah
MCAD, MCSD. NET

[Hilary Cotter]

You need to set the culture for Arabic in your web.config file.

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[msfa...@gmail.com]

Thank you very much for your reply.
I tried all the different parameters for culture, MS.locale, and
encoding. But all of these didn't give me the solution, However, i
found the solution from one of your previous replies. The solution is
to add --Locale Identifier-- to the OLEDB connection string!!
to be like this (For Arabic):

Dim odbSearch As OleDbConnection = New

OleDbConnection("Provider=MSIDXS;Data Source=custom;Locale
Identifier=1025")

That was the problem, Thank you very much.
Best Regards,

Mohamed Salah