Language Optimization

When creating a new Engine during signup, from within your dashboard, or via API, you may select a language type:

Language Optimization - Creating a Korean Engine.

curl -X POST 'https://host-2376rb.api.swiftype.com/api/as/v1/engines' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer private-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' \
-d '{
  "name": "national-parks-demo",
  "language": "ko"
}'

If your Engine spans multiple languages, consider using the default Universal option.

Once you have selected your language, no further configuration is required -- your Engine is optimized for that language.

What does it mean to be language optimized?

Features like stemming, bigram matching, phrase matching, and typo tolerance will be fine-tuned for your chosen language.

You can select from one of the 13 language settings:

Language	Language Code, ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1.
"Brazilian Portuguese"	`pt-br`
“Chinese"	`zh`
"Danish""	`da`
“Dutch"	`nl`
“English"	`en`
"French"	`fr`
“German"	`de`
"Italian"	`it`
"Japanese"	`ja`
"Korean	`ko`
“Portuguese"	`pt`
“Russian"	`ru`
“Spanish"	`es`
“Thai"	`th`
"Universal"	`null`

The language codes adhere to a subset of the IETF RFC 5646, which coincide with ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1.

Once an Engine has been created with a language, it cannot be changed.

Adjusting the language requires migrating to a new Engine.

Stuck? Looking for help? Contact support or check out the App Search community forum!

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