--- a/website/release-1.18.html
+++ b/website/release-1.18.html
@@ -46,17 +46,16 @@
indexes though.</p>
<p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default for this
- release. It can be turned on <em>only</em> by editing
- recoll.conf (see the manual). If you do so, you must reset the
- index.</p>
-
- <p>Always reset the index if installing over an older version (1.16
- and older). The simplest way to do this is to quit all recoll
- programs and just delete the index directory (<span
- class="literal">rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>), then
- start recoll or recollindex. <span
- class="literal">recollindex -z</span> will do the same in
- most, but not all, cases.</p>
+ release. It can be turned on <em>only</em> by editing recoll.conf
+ (see the manual). If you do so, you must then reset the index.</p>
+
+ <p>Always reset the index if installing over an even older
+ version (1.16 and older). The simplest way to do this is to
+ quit all recoll programs and just delete the index directory
+ (<span class="literal">rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>),
+ then start recoll or
+ recollindex. <span class="literal">recollindex -z</span>
+ will do the same in most, but not all, cases.</p>
<p>The subdirectories of xapiandb which were previously used to
store the stem expansion database (stem_english,
@@ -110,18 +109,19 @@
documents, and the <b>evince</b> viewer.</li>
<li>Recoll can now also pass a search string to the native
- application.</li>
-
- <li>There is a list of mime types that should be opened with
+ application (again, works with <b>evince</b>).</li>
+
+ <li>There is a list of MIME types that should be opened with
the locally configured application even when <em>Use
Desktop Preferences</em> is checked. This will permit, for
- example, using evince for its page access capabilities on
- PDF files, while letting the desktop handle all the other
- mime types. The list is not empty by default, it contains PDF,
- Postscript and DVI, so you may want to reset it after
- installation if you want to keep the previous behaviour
- (losing the page number functionality). This can be done
- from the <em>Preferences->Gui Configuration</em> menu.</li>
+ example, using <b>evince</b> for its page access
+ capabilities on PDF files, while letting the desktop handle
+ all the other mime types. The list is not empty by default,
+ it contains PDF, Postscript and DVI, so you may want to
+ reset it after installation if you want to keep the previous
+ behaviour (losing the page number functionality). This can
+ be done from the <em>Preferences->Gui Configuration</em>
+ menu.</li>
<li>The GUI result list has a new "snippets" window for
documents with page numbers, which let the user choose a
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@
<li>The advanced search screen now has a history
function. While the focus is in this window, you
- can walk the history of searches using the up and down arrows.</li>
+ can walk the history of searches using the up and down
+ arrows.</li>
<li>We now allow multiple directory specifications in the query
language, as in: <i>dir:/home/me -dir:tmp</i></li>
@@ -149,7 +150,19 @@
<li>When running in an UTF-8 locale, and after failing to decode a
plain text file as UTF-8, indexing will try again using an 8 bit
character set heuristically chosen according to the locale
- country code.</li>
+ language code. This uses the LANG environment variable.</li>
+
+ <li>On initial installation (when the <em>~/.recoll</em>
+ directory does not exist), recoll will install a list of
+ characters which should not be stripped of diacritics,
+ according to the detected national language (based on
+ $LANG). There are currently specific lists for German (don't
+ strip the umlauts), and Nordic languages (keep the letters
+ with circle above in addition to the German list). Other
+ languages currently only have exceptions which result in
+ decomposing ligatures (fl, fi etc.). You can have a look at
+ the standard recoll.conf in /usr/share/recoll/examples for
+ more information.</li>
<li>A new configuration variable, <tt>maxmemberkbs</tt>, has been
implemented to limit the size of archive members we process. This