Re: Umlauts in Orbis - SWS 6.1

["Mark D. Szuchman" <szuchman>]

Joachim,
The case of umlauts you mention does not conform to what I find in my Orbis 
results, at least in the case of acute accents (I don't often use umlauts, 
but others on the list who do may wish to replicate the experiment). When I 
search for "organizacion" (without an accent over the letter o), I get one 
set of hits, and when I search for "organizacio'n" (that is, with a 
properly accented letter o), I get a different number of hits which does 
*not* include "organizacion" without the accent.
Mark


At 09:17 AM 1/5/03 -0600, you wrote:
> I just realize (for the first time) that Orbis does not distinguish umlauts:
> 'Kunstler' produces exact the same (number of) results as 'Künstler' (=
> Kuenstler), meaning f. i. that a search for 'Kunst*' produces (hopefully
> all) occurrences  of 'Kunstwerk' as well as of 'Künstler'.  A minor
> nuisance - but still ...
>
> Regards: Joachim Linder
>
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