Re: Umlauts in Orbis - SWS 6.1

["Joachim Linder" <JLinder>]

Jukka-Pekka,

thanks for your answer. Following it I tried to _maintain_ the existing
database (checking left box, right box, both boxes, non - each resulting in
a full indexing cycle) with no other result than to learn that maintining
seems not to change this property of an existing database. Some day I'll be
in the mood to try it by building a new database.

For the time being: best whishes - Joachim Linder


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jukka-Pekka Takala" <jtakala>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: Umlauts in Orbis - SWS 6.1


>
> Joachim,
>
> Have you checked how you have chosen to deal with umlauts? There are two
> boxes in the Orbis textbase creation/editing menu that affect this. I've
> chosen to check the first box ("include all accents/modifiers") and get
> results such that "Künst*" would return "Künstler" but not "Kunstwerk,"
> while "Kunst*" would give the latter but not the former. (I recall that
> checking both boxes would change the results such that the accented
> letter in search string would find only indentical accented letters in
> the textbase, while the base latter would retrieve both accented and
> unaccented counterparts. And you could yet try checking just the latter
> box.)
>
> I believe the keyboard problem is to some extent an independent one that
> may or may not affect this. I'm sure that all the accented characters
> that are part of my Finnish keyboard (and are thus reliably entered as
> one-byte versions) behave as described above. The umlauted characters in
> the German.kbd created by NBWin seem to be one-byte versions, too; so I
> don't think there should be any problems with them either.
>
> j-p takala
>