Spearmaster - 3:30 pm on Nov 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

I haven't done my site in Thai yet so haven't had to do much testing yet. But strangely enough, while I was doing some checks in OpenFind (Taiwan) just now, I took a closer look at the source and discovered that a search was being sent to the script like this: %bd - where the % serves as an escape character, and bd represents the actual keystrokes.

This would indicate that its results are all served up (or stored) in this format, and thus eliminate the issue of pattern matching. I didn't check Yahoo or Lycos or similar engines yet, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that they were using a similar technique.

Thus, a string of characters (or keystrokes) would automatically eliminate any issues with spaces, since I presume they would be automatically discarded in a search if they existed in the query term.

Now I wonder how that would work in Thai... I can't test that as my own machine does not have Thai installed, but it would be a simple task for me to find out elsewhere.