Text indexing languages
Language codes identify the languages for which IBM® Content Search Services can index a document.
Language codes for IBM Content Search Services
IBM Content Search Services uses language codes to identify the languages used for document indexing.
Important: Because IBM Content Search Services runs
searches in all indexed languages, the number of indexed languages affects search performance. For
example, searches might run 10% - 20% slower for three indexed languages than for a single indexed
language.
| Language | Code |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af |
| Arabic | ar |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chinese | zh |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch | nl |
| English | en |
| Finish | fi |
| French | fr |
| German | de |
| Greek | el |
| Hebrew | he |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Korean | ko |
| Norwegian (Bokmal) | nb |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | nn |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Russian | ru |
| Spanish | es |
| Swedish | sv |
| Turkish | tr |
To set the indexing languages for your object store, see topic csscbr_indexinglanguage_setting.html#indexinglanguage_setting_css.