如何使搜索引擎在 bookdown gitbook 中为多字节字符（尤其是日语）工作？

Question

I have built a gitbook with the bookdown package. The search engine does work for English-written parts of the text and codes (ie alphabet and numbers, basically), but I have found it doesn't work at all if I type in some Japanese words.

Is there any ways to make that work?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This problem will be gone if you switch the search engine to fuse ( details here ):

output:
  bookdown::gitbook:
    config:
      search:
        engine: fuse

Currently you need to install the dev version of bookdown :

remotes::install_github('rstudio/bookdown')