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    1. reminder that the choice of defaults is one of the primary ways technical systems carry the assumptions of their authors with them. postgresql full text search functions work out of the box for english but return nothing for arabic without extra work.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    anyway if you have experience doing full text search in postgresql in any language other than english im all ears
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    1. …in reply to @ra
      okay I think I've got it figured out: just going to do simple postgres text search for now without any stemming or anything interesting for Arabic, and maybe move to elasticsearch down the line, which seems to have more complete support for Arabic out of the box.
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