No -- it is native -- you can't map "œ" to "o" for example,
but if you turn "œ" to its numeric "\234" single character
you can map it in the index instruction file where you tell it to be
case insensitive, etc.
Best,
David
>>
>> Thanks David. That's good news. Did you have to do any
>> prgramming "magic" to make this happen or is this supported
>> natively in OpenText? Our finding aids have a LOT of
>> diacritics.
>>
>> Alvin
>>
>>
>> At 11:03 PM 08/09/1999 -0400, David M. Seaman wrote:
>> >>> >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?
>> >
>> >Alvin -- the Univ Virginia EAD guides do search for accented letters using
>> >OT5 (although the guides do not contain many accented letters).
>> >
>> > http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/ead/
>> >
>> >For example, the James Rogers McConnell Memorial Collections: #2104 has
>> >some French names such as Helene that can be searched for either by
>> >typing in unaccented letters "Helene" or by typing (or copying and
>> >pasting) the accented forms. If you do the latter you get just the
>> >accented forms; the former gives you the letters however they are.
>> >
>> >Best,
>> >
>> >David Seaman, Director 804-924-3230 (phone)
>> >Electronic Text Center 804-924-1431 (fax)
>> >Alderman Library email: [log in to unmask]
>> >University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
>> >Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
>> >
>> >
>> >
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