Combining diacritics

Hi,
it seems we experienced the bug explained in
bug nbr 2679092 (Text treats "combining diacritics" as break characters) on metalink.
Installing the needed pachset (9204) and recreating the context index, however, doesn't seem to fix the problem.
I'll explain what we expect:
consider next entry in the database:
roÌsa (o + combining acute accent) (CharacterSet=UTF8: 72,6f,cc,81,73,61)
Now, if you search for this term, using next search term:
rÃ³sa (combined letter o with acute accent) (characterSet=UTF8: 72,c3,b3,73,61)
we do expect to get a hit. This is not the case.
Did someone experienced a simular problem?
Maybe the result we expect is wrong?
Thanks in advanced and regards
Hans

hmmm...try dropping and recreating the index instead of rebuilding. Just a wild guess, but rule out the easy stuff first.
If that fails to resolve it, check your DR$..$I.TOKEN_TEXT column for the term you are searching for. If it is present in that column, and the term looks correct, then you should find with no problem...go back to support if this is the case to have them check it out.
If it isn't in the TOKEN_TEXT column, or is not in the format you expect for that term, then it obviously won't be found on a search. In that case, create a simple test case with that term only and send it off to support. It should be reproducible, but make sure they run the test against a UTF8 db on 9.2.0.4 to verify.
-Ron

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