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Showing non-english caracters in search results gives bad results

Hi

I have a problem with special characters like ? ? ? where used in the searchstring doesn't display the proper result from MSN.

I have tried to do a string rewrite replacing the character with it's entity name ie replacing ? with "& Aring;" but that gives the same results as if I used ? without the rewrite

If I then replace ? with Aa (same meaning in Danish) I do get some ok results but not the same as if I used ?

So what to do?

I altso would link to display the last MSN cache date - is this possible?



Kind regards
Dyvel
Sorry for the bad subject title - i meant: using non-english characters in search string gives bad search results and not the same results as the same searchstring performed at msn.dk would give me...



Kind regards
Dyvel

Hi Dyvel, have you tried setting the CultureInfo field to "da-DK"? I tried the following search string in the shipping Visual Studio 2005 C# sample application and in the search box on http://msn.dk/Default.asp:

S?g på nettet

Both returned identical results. Please let me know if this solves your problem. Thanks.




Jim Gordon, MSN Search Program Management
James Gordon
I did set culture info to da-DK and this did not help anything :(

Thanks anyway



Kind regards
Dyvel
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