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Re: Is it advisable to index html files as txt? [message #1550 is a reply to message #1547]

Tue, 01 November 2022 08:38

FoxTrot Engineering
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Indexing HTML files as plain text would usually give unexpected results:
- it would index every HTML tag, as well as javascript source code etc
- it would not not decode HTML entities (accented letters and special characters encoded in US-ascii)
- it would not handle character set encodings (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 etc) properly
- etc

However if you actually need to index them as source code files rather than for their displayed content, you can use the Aliases hidden preference. We recommend using PrefsEditor instead of the command line to set this preference.

Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering

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