Localizing the Full-Text Search Database

The JavaHelp system full-text search database is constructed using the jhindexer command. The jhindexer command parses HTML topic files according to each file's character encoding. If the document format (HTML, GIF, text) supports a language attribute, the document text is tokenized according to the language attributes for its elements.

By default, jhindexer assumes the default locale - use the locale option to specify the locale directly to the jhindexer command. The syntax for the locale option is:

    jhindexer -locale language_country_variant

The argument to the option is the name of the locale as described in java.util.Locale, for example, en_US (English, United States) or en_US_WIN (English, United States, Windows variant).

See also:

Localizing Help Information

Localizing Help Presentation

Localizing Helpsets

Localizing XML Data

Localizing HTML Data

Localization and Fonts

Creating the Full-text Search Database

The jhindexer Command