[Mead] Re: Italian characters stripped

[radev at umich.edu]

> Hi Drago,
> 
> I have been able to do some tests on the data I've got in my database =
> and I'm getting close to having a working system thanks to MEAD.
> There are only a few things that I can't understand.
> 
> The first is that all special characters like =E8,=E0,=E9,=F9,=F2, etc.. =
> are being stripped from the text. Is this something that can be changed? =
> Is it due to the HTML > text conversion or is it something internal to =
> MEAD itself?

I am not sure, to tell you the truth... I will post your question to
the mailing list.

Drago

> 
> The second question is how to make a language db file for Italian. In =
> chapter 11.3 of the manual there's a mention to a script used to do that =
> work but that has been stripped from v3.07. Can you give me some =
> directions as to how to compute IDF? Is there any way to do that through =
> the analysis of a large set of documents?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Valerio