SharePoint indexing, mulitilingual search and swedish characters

Having problems finding words that include e.g. "åäö" when doing your SharePoint 2007 searches? You know the words are indexed and you are only able to find them when exchanging "å", "ä" with "a" and "ö" with "o". That would make important search capabilities useless in Sweden where these characters exists.

The underlying problem is that diacritic sensitivity is turned off be default which means that SharePoint treats these characters as accents. To make SharePoint index and search correctly run the following stsadm command:

"stsadm -o osearchdiacriticsensitive -ssp -setstatus TRUE"

The search capabilities can also be enhanced by enabling stemming on the search controls to be able to handle inflections.

Some more links regarding this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joelo/archive/2006/12/01/multi-lingual-search-diacritic-sensitivity-and-what-you-need-to-know-about-it.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262590(office.12).aspx

Happy config / Jakob