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date: 2022-05-05
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authors: [squidfunk]
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title: Chinese search support
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description: >
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Insiders adds Chinese language support for the built-in search plugin – a
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feature that has been requested many times
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categories:
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- Search
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links:
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- blog/posts/search-better-faster-smaller.md
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- plugins/search.md#segmentation
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- insiders/index.md#how-to-become-a-sponsor
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---
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# Chinese search support – 中文搜索支持
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__Insiders adds experimental Chinese language support for the [built-in search
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plugin] – a feature that has been requested for a long time given the large
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number of Chinese users.__
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After the United States and Germany, the third-largest country of origin of
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Material for MkDocs users is China. For a long time, the [built-in search plugin]
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didn't allow for proper segmentation of Chinese characters, mainly due to
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missing support in [lunr-languages] which is used for search tokenization and
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stemming. The latest Insiders release adds long-awaited Chinese language support
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for the built-in search plugin, something that has been requested by many users.
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<!-- more -->
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_Material for MkDocs終於支持中文了！文本被正確分割並且更容易找到。_
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{ style="display: inline" }
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_This article explains how to set up Chinese language support for the built-in
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search plugin in a few minutes._
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{ style="display: inline" }
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[built-in search plugin]: ../../plugins/search.md
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[lunr-languages]: https://github.com/MihaiValentin/lunr-languages
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## Configuration
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Chinese language support for Material for MkDocs is provided by [jieba], an
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excellent Chinese text segmentation library. If [jieba] is installed, the
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built-in search plugin automatically detects Chinese characters and runs them
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through the segmenter. You can install [jieba] with:
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```
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pip install jieba
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```
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The next step is only required if you specified the [`separator`][separator]
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configuration in `mkdocs.yml`. Text is segmented with [zero-width whitespace]
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characters, so it renders exactly the same in the search modal. Adjust
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`mkdocs.yml` so that the [`separator`][separator] includes the `\u200b`
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character:
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``` yaml
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plugins:
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- search:
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separator: '[\s\u200b\-]'
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```
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That's all that is necessary.
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## Usage
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If you followed the instructions in the configuration guide, Chinese words will
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now be tokenized using [jieba]. Try searching for
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[:octicons-search-24: 支持][q=支持] to see how it integrates with the
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built-in search plugin.
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---
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Note that this is an experimental feature, and I, @squidfunk, am not
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proficient in Chinese (yet?). If you find a bug or think something can be
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improved, please [open an issue].
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[jieba]: https://pypi.org/project/jieba/
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[zero-width whitespace]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space
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[separator]: ../../setup/setting-up-site-search.md#separator
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[q=支持]: ?q=支持
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[open an issue]: https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/issues/new/choose
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