Options

How to use option settings to control indexing and searching.

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Topics

Topic	Description
Options Overview	Overview of option settings
The HomeDir, PrivateDir, and TempFileDir option settings	Description of the HomeDir, PrivateDir, and TempFileDir option settings.
Options Files	Description of configuration files used by the dtSearch Engine
Noise Words	The NoiseWordFile option setting is the name of a file with a list of words to skip when indexing documents.
Alphabet Settings	The alphabet file determines which characters are treated as text, which cause a word break, and which are ignored.
Redefining Search Operators	How to change the operator characters @ # % ~ & : = used in search requests
ICU Integration	The dtSearch Engine can be integrated with the International Components for Unicode (ICU).
Hyphens	The Options.Hyphens setting is a HyphenSettings value that determines how hyphen characters are indexed
Filtering Options	The Unicode Filtering algorithm in the dtSearch Engine can be used to improve text extraction from binary files.