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# International Stop List

When you use the `AnyLanguage` parameter in all or most of your queries, you might want to use the international stop list. This stop list contains common stop words for all languages, but does not include terms that are stop words in one language, but useful search terms in another language.

For multilingual searching, this stop list ensures that the query includes all useful terms, while still removing all stop words that are never useful terms.

The `international.dat` stop list is included in the `langfiles` directory of a default HPE IDOL Server installation. You must configure each of the languages in your configuration file to use this stop list. If you have existing data in HPE IDOL Server, you must also reindex the data.

To configure the international stop list

1. Open the HPE IDOL Server configuration file in a text editor.

2. In the `[Languages]` configuration section, find the configuration sections for all the languages that you want to return in `AnyLanguage` queries, including the language specified in the `DefaultLanguageType` parameter.

3. In each configuration section, set `Stoplist` to `international.dat`. For example:

       [english]
       Encodings=UTF8:generalUTF8
       Stoplist=international.dat

       [italian]
       Encodings=UTF8:italianUTF8
       Stoplist=international.dat

       [spanish]
       Encodings=UTF8:spanishUTF8
       Stoplist=international.dat

4. Save and close the configuration file. Restart HPE IDOL Server for your changes to take effect.

5. Reindex all your data into HPE IDOL Server to apply the changes to all your documents.

Related Topics

- Stop Word Lists for Supported Languages

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