. and / are stopwords?

[Pekka Saarinen]

Problem: I need to search camera apertures and shutter speeds, e.g.

1.8

1/100

I have set the default minimum word length to 2, but fulltext handles above keywords with loosing the . or / and treating 1 and 8 and 1 and 100 as separate keywords. This of course does not produce desired search result.

How can I make fulltext accept these special characters?

I have RHEL4, MySQL 4.0.25 compiled from source using

./configure \
--prefix=/somepath/mysql \
--enable-assembler \
--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static \
--without-innodb \
--with-server-suffix=-something \
--enable-thread-safe-client \
--enable-local-infile \
--with-client-ldflags=-all-static \
--disable-maintainer-mode \
--with-mysqld-user=someuser \
--with-unix-socket-path=/somepath/mysql.sock \
--without-comment \
--without-debug \
--without-bench
--disable-shared