12-07-2012
Hello,
I found the problem. BOM: Byte Order mark
Normally under windows a UTF-8 file starts with a BOM (byte order mark, U+FEFF), as is standard for UTF-8 files on Windows systems. I concede that it is legal for them to do so, but it is utterly pointless since the byte order is determined by the formal specification of the UTF-8 representation itself. And it just happens that, unlike the rest of UTF-8, an initial BOM will screw up a Unix system. And Perl is supposed to be
Quote:
"an oasis of Unix culture in the desert of can't-get-there-from here" (Larry Wall, probably slightly misquoted).
Using a hex editor I removed the FEFF and it worked like a charm.
On Linux you should have no problem, since this aberration does not exist ina Unix system
Many thanks for trying to solve the mystery.
As an aid to all of us who suffer the tyranny of the WinOS system, here is a useful link:
HTML Code:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=599720.
This offers two solutions for the problem. Googling
Quote:
"perl bom" or "perl File::BOM"
comes up with more if needed.
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create_text_search_dictionary
CREATE TEXT SEARCH
DICTIONARY(7) SQL Commands CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY(7)
NAME
CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY - define a new text search dictionary
SYNOPSIS
CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY name (
TEMPLATE = template
[, option = value [, ... ]]
)
DESCRIPTION
CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY creates a new text search dictionary. A text search dictionary specifies a way of recognizing interesting or
uninteresting words for searching. A dictionary depends on a text search template, which specifies the functions that actually perform the
work. Typically the dictionary provides some options that control the detailed behavior of the template's functions.
If a schema name is given then the text search dictionary is created in the specified schema. Otherwise it is created in the current
schema.
The user who defines a text search dictionary becomes its owner.
Refer to in the documentation for further information.
PARAMETERS
name The name of the text search dictionary to be created. The name can be schema-qualified.
template
The name of the text search template that will define the basic behavior of this dictionary.
option The name of a template-specific option to be set for this dictionary.
value The value to use for a template-specific option. If the value is not a simple identifier or number, it must be quoted (but you can
always quote it, if you wish).
The options can appear in any order.
EXAMPLES
The following example command creates a Snowball-based dictionary with a nonstandard list of stop words.
CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_russian (
template = snowball,
language = russian,
stopwords = myrussian
);
COMPATIBILITY
There is no CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY statement in the SQL standard.
SEE ALSO
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY [alter_text_search_dictionary(7)], DROP TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY [drop_text_search_dictionary(7)]
SQL - Language Statements 2010-05-14 CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY(7)