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title: "Selecting a language"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Optimize your Acquia Search for multiple languages. Learn how to configure language-specific schemas, handle non-Latin languages, and troubleshoot common issues for improved multilingual search functionality."
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Acquia Search can index websites in most languages, but it passes content through a language-specific stemmer during indexing, depending on the search schema that you configured for your website.

Using the Search API Solr Drupal module
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To use a language-specific Solr configset, you can use the built-in functionality in the Search API Solr Drupal module to generate a new configset optimized for a specific language or languages. You can then deploy it by following [Custom Solr configuration](/acquia-cloud-platform/features/acquia-search/customizing/config-solr).

The Search API Solr module runs a check to compare the configuration in Drupal and Solr, and shows an error message if it detects a mismatch.

If you’re using an outdated version of Drupal and Solr, you get an error message such as **You are using outdated Solr configuration set**. For more information, see [Troubleshooting the Search API Solr message](https://acquia.my.site.com/s/article/1500001892761-Troubleshooting-the-Search-API-Solr-message-You-are-using-outdated-Solr-configuration-set).

Acquia Search with other languages
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The full set of languages supported by Acquia Search is listed at [https://solr.apache.org/guide/8\_11/language-analysis.html](https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_11/language-analysis.html).

Although the default schema of Acquia Search optimizes for **English** searches, Acquia also provides schemas in other languages. Most of the Latin-based languages have grammatical and linguistic similarities. Therefore, you can use them in a straightforward manner.

Non-Latin languages, such as **Chinese**, **Japanese**, and **Korean** (CJK), use different stemming and spacing rules compared to Latin-based languages. The Solr / Lucene search engine must handle non-latin languages differently than Latin-based languages.

For instructions on how to add support for the **Chinese**, **Japanese**, and **Korean** (CJK) languages, see [Custom Solr configuration](/acquia-cloud-platform/features/acquia-search/customizing/config-solr).

Note

Acquia recommends you to test your configuration before applying them to your Solr instance.

More resources
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*   [Apache Solr Reference Guide](https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_11/)
*   [Apache Solr Tutorials](https://solr.apache.org/resources.html)
*   [Solarium PHP Library docs](https://solarium.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
*   [Solr Community](https://solr.apache.org/resources.html#community)