mnoGoSearch 3.3.9 reference manual: Full-featured search engine software
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# LocalCharset

## Name

LocalCharset -- defines local character set

`indexer.conf`

`search.htm`

## Synopsis

LocalCharset {charset}

## Description

LocalCharset defines the character set which is used to store data in the database.

Documents written in all other character sets are converted into the given character set.

> Note: `indexer.conf` and `search.htm` should set LocalCharset to the same value.

The default value is `latin1` (`ISO-8859-1`).

See the Section called Character sets in Chapter 9 for the list of all available character sets, as well as for description how mnoGoSearch handles character sets and performs conversion at various steps of information processing.

## Scope

LocalCharset has global effect for the entire configuration file and should be used only one time.

## Examples

    LocalCharset UTF-8

## See also

BrowserCharset, ForceIISCharset1251, RemoteCharset, RemoteFileNameCharset.

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