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I am a novice to webinator 5.0.
1) When searching my website, scandinavian characters are not accepted.
2) in the display of search results, å,ø and æ do not display correctly.

Can anyone tell me where to make the appropriate customizing?

If your webserver locale is not correct you may have to set it manually. In the dowalk and search scripts you'll find lines that look like
<!-- <sql "set locale='es_ES'"></sql> -->
Remove the comments and change es_ES to whatever's appropriate for your system (I don't know what that would be).
<sql "set locale='es_ES'"></sql>

I have changed
<!-- <sql "set locale='es_ES'"></sql> -->
to
<sql "set locale='da_DK'"></sql>
in both the dowalk and search files. However, that does not seem to help.
However, I found out that if I change the character set in the browser (IE 6.0) from 'Western European' to 'Unicode UTF-8', everything seems to work nicely (for that specific session). I am using a Sun ONE Webserver 6.1 under Windows 2000.

Yes, Webinator 5.0 outputs in UTF-8, so you can also add a meta line to notify the browser. Add this to your top.html template:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">

and browsers will recognize the charset.

Thanks a lot for your help. That solved my output problems. But I had to do the same on the input page. It would be nice to provide a standard way to handle European character sets on the search part. But perhaps I am just too much non-expert....

We will be adding a flag to subsequent versions. In the meantime you can edit the search script to decode the UTF-8, for example by changing the <send $dtitle> and <send $dabstract> to <fmt %!V $dtitle> and <fmt %!V $dabstract>