Using Content Server in International Environments
International Scenarios > European Language Environments > Western European Languages

Western European Languages

In Western European language environments, Content Server typically handles files, content, and metadata in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and/or Finnish, and text in these languages needs to be included in the full-text search index. The Content Server software can be installed on an English-language or localized operating system (for example, the German or French version of Microsoft Windows).

Western European environments like these typically do not require any special modifications to the file and language encoding settings of the out-of-the-box content server. All Western European languages share the same file encoding (ISO-8859-1), which means they can generally be mixed without any issues.

Search Solution

If you are using the Verity search engine to provide search capability to the content server, the Verity locale is set to ‘englishx’ by default. This Verity locale supports full-text indexing of special characters in all Western European languages (for example, ä, ß, é, ç, ó, ñ, æ). Each language also has its own Verity locale (for example, ‘germanx’, ‘frenchx’, etc.). If you want, you can configure Verity to use the language-specific locales. All European Verity locales ending in ‘x’ can handle European special characters such as ä, ß, é, ç, ó, ñ, æ. The differences between these locales are related to the language in which Verity-related messages are presented and the way results are presented in the search results pages, etc. For details on changing the Verity locale refer to Changing the Verity Locale.

If you are using the database or FAST to provide search capability to the content server, no changes to the out-of-the-box content server configuration are necessary.