Synonym letters in SharePoint serach

Question

In alphabet of languages used in my region we have letters đ, č, ć, ž, š. People are used to type search text using English alphabet only. Expected outcome is that search engine will ignore our letters and apply rule:

đ = dj = d

č = c

ć = c

š = s

i.e. if I search for 'skola zivota' search result will include 'škola života'. Google play nice with this https://www.google.com/search?q=skola%20zivota.

How to accomplish this with SharePoint 2010 Search?

I think that thesaurus files and phonetic search can't help me on this. I can't remember exactly how but in SharePoint 2007 there was way to configure this in registry.

Answer 1

Using enterprise search you can set diacritics to be insensitive basically ignoring them but this only applies to the thesaurus feature.

In 2007 you had this:

stsadm -o osearchdiacriticsensitive
        -ssp <ssp name>
        [-setstatus <True|False>]
        [-noreset]

osearchdiacriticsensitive

Which is what I think you are thinking of, but I am not sure if it applies to 2010 and I cannot test it.

But it is listed for 2013 SharePoint 2013 STSADM, so maybe hopefully it didn't skip a generation.