Hi there,
We have a Windows Sharepoint Services installation and are indexing its
content. I have a question regarding the index so I thought it might be
better to post here instead of the WSS newsgroups.

Anyway, here we go:
We have thousands of documents with content in multiple langauges (e.g.
English and german, english and portuguese, etc...).
Of course there are documents which contain only 1 language.
Now when trying a search for let's say: "muito" which is in the list of
Portuguese noisewords, the index return some documents, but not all which
contain this word.
So I was wondering how exactly do noise words work. I can understand that
the index woudln't return portuguese only documents becaus it is in the
langauges noisewords list. But what about multi-language documents? Does
Sharepoint/Index Server determine what langauge a document is in and then
apply the correct noise word file. Or does it always apply the English
noisewords (the server is an english installation).
How is it possible that some documents which contain a given word are
returned but not all?

Hope I was a little bit clear and someone can help me

Regards

Gilles