o (shaling) 0.0.2
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What is this?
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o (shaling) is a full text search engine. o uses N-gram method. o handles
Unicode (UTF-8).

About name
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o is pronounced as "shaling". "Shaling" is a Japanese, and means a "wheel". o's
shape is a wheel, so this is "shaling".

There is a mailer named Shaling
(http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/shaling/), nobody will be confused.

Features
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* N-gram method
* Fuzzy search
* Attributes
* UTF-8

Requirements
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* x86
* Ubuntu Linux 8.04
* libz.so.1
* libbz2.so.1.0
* librt.so.1
* libpthread.so.0
* libm.so.6
* libc.so.6

Issue tracking system and known bugs
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This project uses ditz (http://ditz.rubyforge.org/) as an issues management
system. You can see issues and known bugs at
http://neko-daisuki.ddo.jp/~SumiTomohiko/o/issues/.

Restrictions
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* Fuzzy search cannot search attributes.

Development plans and progress
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by 0.0.2
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* fuzzy search
* boolean search (ex. foo AND bar OR baz)

Other full text search engines
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* Hyper Estraier (http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/index.html)
* Tokyo Dystopia (http://1978th.net/tokyodystopia/)
* Rast (http://projects.netlab.jp/rast/?FrontPage.ja)
* Namazu (http://www.namazu.org/index.html.en)
* Lux (http://luxse.sourceforge.net/)
* Senna (http://qwik.jp/senna/FrontPage.html)

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