Distribution/Version: SUSE 10.0

If I search for "dan", I get a zillion mis-hits, because beagle thinks
that the french word "dans" is the plural form of my name. Fixing
bug 143708 would solve that particular problem, but there would still be
other cases where a search string was a valid word in two different
languages and so searching for it would give hits the user doesn't
want.

For mostly-monolingual users, this is really only a problem with
translations of system-wide files like .desktop files and documentation.
For docs, it should be easy to grab the "lang" attribute from the top
level and tag the file with that, and the search UI could use that property
to decide whether or not to display the result. 

For .desktop files it's harder because all of the languages are mixed into a
single file. Maybe the indexer could just index the file multiple times, once
for each language? So then if I search for "suite", I'd get one hit for the
/opt/gnome/share/applications/evolution-2.4.desktop with "beagle:Lang" = "en"
and the snippet "Comment=The Evolution Groupware Suite" and another with
"beagle:Lang" = "fr" and the snippet "Comment[fr]=La suite de travail
collaboratif Evolution". (But I don't know the details of how the indexer
works, and maybe this is impossible.)