Re: Umlauts in Orbis - SWS 6.1

["Joachim Linder" <JLinder>]

Mark,

Thanks for answering. I suppose that you're using the standard nb.kbd
(US-style, of course with your specific adaptions) while I'm using the
german.kbd with built in umlauts etc. (ä, ö, ü, ß). After quite a history
with minor (and not so minor) nuisances with umlauts I suspect that NBWin
has less problems with the US keyboard and diacritics keyed in via menu
and/or a combination of keys than with built in keys adapted to national
keyboards. Globalisation sees winners and losers!

Regards: Joachim Linder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark D. Szuchman" <szuchman>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Umlauts in Orbis - SWS 6.1


>
> 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
> >
> >Dr. Joachim Linder
> >Fuerstenrieder Strasse 9
> >D-80687 Muenchen
> >Tel./Fax: +89-54650017
> >Email: JLinder
> >http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JLinder
>
>
>
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