There are severe problems with accented letters that probably prevent users from a lot of countries (with accented letters language) to use X1.
It seems that X1 is not able to deal with accented letters in text files!
Yes, it is hard to believe, but you can reproduce the problem by downloading
http://ct13.free.fr/X1/Indexation_test.zip (3 kB)
Decompress this archive in a place where it is indexed by X1. You will get 3 files with the same content:
a) one in MS Word format
b) one text file with Windows format
c) one text file with DOS format
These files content the words: unusualword and eczéma.
Once indexed, do the searches:
1) Search "unusualword ecz". You will get the 3 files without problem.
2) Search "unusualword eczé". You will get only the Word file.
3) Search "unusualword ecze". You will get only the Word file.
To be of interest for accented language people, X1 should return the 3 files in the 3 searches, or at least the first two files (assuming that the DOS format is obsolescent, even if I have a lot of such files on my disk…).
I tried to circumvent the problem but I did not find a solution.
There is no joker able to replace letters, and searches like "unusualword ecz*ma" or "unusualword ecz?ma" do not work (it could have been a replacement solution until a better one arrives.
Gerard
I use version 5.2 Beta Release 1 (Build 1852al) (Released Friday, April 8, 2005), Windows 2000 SP4.
The same problem occurs with Yahoo Desktop Search (version 1500zk), Windows XP SP1.
