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- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 11:24:06 IST
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- From: "J-P Takala, University of Helsinki, Sociology" <JTAKALA@FINUHA>
- Subject: Re: Orbis problems
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- Dieter Christensen writes:
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- > I can't get Orbis to accept circumflexed
- > vowels, nor will it find occurrences of words with
- > circumflexed vowels in the text base when I use a plain
- > search word.
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- I have a similar problem, as I reported here some weeks ago:
- Orbis search template does not seem to accept any characters
- but the standard American ones. No accents, no umlauts, no
- circumflexes.
-
- However, there seems to be a way around this: if you have the
- word with accented/umlauted/circumflexed character in your
- normal edit file and (having cursor on the word) press
- ALT-?, Orbis will look it up for you. It even works with
- an asterisk as a wildcard (which is imperative for an
- agglutinative language like Finnish and useful for other
- languages too).
- Of course this is not a satisfactory solution. I haven't
- figured out how to conduct Boolean searches this way, for
- instance. And my version of Orbis does not know that
- a small a-umlaut is the same as a capital A-umlaut although it
- treats different cases of American letters as the same.
-
- Jukka-Pekka Takala
- internet: JTakala@cc.Helsinki.Fi
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