# 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 IDOL Content component installation. You must configure each of the languages in your configuration file to use this stop list. If you have existing data in Content, you must also reindex the data.

To configure the international stop list

1. Open the IDOL Content component 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.

5. Restart the IDOL Content component for your changes to take effect.

6. Reindex all your data into the IDOL Content component to apply the changes to all your documents.

Related Topics

- Stop Word Lists for Supported Languages

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