Searching for Chinese characters in files

[dieterlu]

I have not yet found a program that can search files for Chinese characters such as 太阳. PdfXchange viewer does the trick for pdf files, but there must be a simple program out there that can handle a wider range of file types.

[hyjonh]

I suggest that you could take a look at these two portable freeware:

Index Your Files:
http://www.indexyourfiles.com/
XSearch:
http://www.easexp.com/xsearch/

IYF will do an index job, the indexing will take a few secs, then you can type and search. Searching speed is high, and the preview function is very useful. It can search both names and contents.

XSearch will do a classic search, that means no indexing job. It can search both names and contents, but no preview function.

[azmilsyahmi]

Try the Google Translator. I use it to translate English to Arabic and it works beautifully and its also free

[Anupam]

Originally Posted by azmilsyahmi

Try the Google Translator. I use it to translate English to Arabic and it works beautifully and its also free

Can Google Translate search inside files for non-English characters.... which is the request from the poster.

[Jojoyee]

Originally Posted by dieterlu

I have not yet found a program that can search files for Chinese characters such as 太阳. PdfXchange viewer does the trick for pdf files, but there must be a simple program out there that can handle a wider range of file types.

Try Google Desktop Search, which is able to search Chinese characters in multiple types of files on your PC.

Another search engine called "Everything" also supports searching Chinese characters. It's super fast, searches file names only, but not the contents inside the files.

There might be more which I've not tried out. So long as the program supports the Unicode standard, I think it should then be able to search Chinese characters.