I have created a fulltext catalog that stores the data from some of the columns in a table, but the contents seem to have been split apart by characters that I don\'t really
The ability to configure FTS indexing is fairly limited out of the box. I don't think that you can use languages to do this.
If you are up for a challenge, and have access to some C++ knowledge, you can always write a custom IFilter implementation. It's not trivial, but not too difficult. See here for IFilter resources.