Verity & non-English categories

Question

Hi there
I've attached some test code, which demonstrates what I'm
doing. It looks a bit long-winded - it's 60-odd lines - and I'd
usually not post that much, but I kind of have to here. It's pretty
simple, so I hope you don't get frightened away by the apparent
length of my post.
Note: to run the code, you'll need to D/L and install the
Eastern European lanugage pack from here, first:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/verity.
Note the install instructions are wrong, and you should put the
files in {verity}\k2\common, not in the {cf} install dir. For me
the correct dir was C:\ColdFusionSearchService\k2\common.
I am trying to index some Russian-language data, which also
has Russian-language categorisation. The basic indexing works fine:
I can index and search for Russian text. However if I add
Russian-language categories to my indexed records, I cannot search
on those categories: I always get no results.
Oddly, if I change the language of the collection to English
and search on the Russian-language categories, it "works", but all
the Cyrillic data is munged. So "close but no banana" on that one.
I have to concede that today is the first time I've tried to
use Verity in any language other than English, so I figure (hope!)
I am just doing something daft.
Any thoughts?
Adam

Answer 1

Ballocks.
For those using the newsfeed, this line:
<cfset sCategory =
"ÀÞááØï"><!--- change this from
"ÀÞááØï" to be something
in English, and it works fine --->
Might come out with question marks instead of the word
"Russia" in Russian.
It reads OK on the web-UI.
Adam