Hi Richard,
I have a question about OpenText I hope you don't mind if
I ask you. I'm involved in some issues concerning indexing
and diacritical marks and I was wondering how OpenText handles
this. When I did a search on your site for some words that
are spelled with diacritical marks, e.g., "M=FCnchen", "Jos=E9",
etc., I only retrieved words without the diacritics. I entered
them in your search form without the diacritics and the only
words retrieved also did not have diacritics. I tried searching
with the diacritical mark and also with the SDATA equivalent
of the diacritic, e.g., München, and both queries returned
nothing. I looked at some other OpenText sites and found the
same thing. I no longer have access to the RLG site so I
wasn't able to test there. Anyway, did you simply omit diacritics
when encoding your finding aids, or did I just not find the
right documents? Do you happen to know how OpenText handles
searches with diacritics?
Regards,
Alvin
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