[Xapian-discuss] PHP functions in Ubuntu packages

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:50:25PM -0500, Francis Irving wrote:
> Am I correct that keywords can only contain alphanumeric characters,
> even if (for example) quoted?

If it's a boolean prefix, any character is allowed apart from whitespace
and ')'.  The reason for excluding ')' is so that we parse boolean
queries with brackets correctly - if that actually bothered someone, we
could probably handle this in a more subtle way (e.g. check if the term
exists including the ')').

Cheers,
    Olly