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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 22:08:37 EST
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- From: "Wayne A. Meeks" <WMEEKS@YALEVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Ibid and accents
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- If I'm the only one having this problem, I apologize for bringing it up again
- to the list. Ibid will, for me, not find authors or titles with accented or
- umlauted letters. (I am using Lingua constantly. Most of my NBBIBxxx.DAT
- files are converted from 3.1 SLS, following the directions in the Ibid Quick
- Start Card, "Updating . . ."--however, lookup doesn't work any better with
- records that I have entered under 4.0 Lingua.)
-
- Itamar suggested that the problem was the expansion of characters and that it
- could be cured by adding the .DAT extension to the exception list in
- NBCUSTOM.DAT. Certainly seemed plausible, and I did that. The difference is
- that now if I call the .DAT files to screen, the accented letters are replaced
- by that empty rectangle that NB 4.0 uses when you don't have the relevant
- alphabet loaded. Lookup still doesn't find the accented words. If I look
- them up by other means (date, ref. number, etc.), they now appear perfectly
- normal on the screen, whether in short or in long format.
-
- Doubtless I will eventually get through to NBI with this and some other
- questions. Meanwhile, am I overlooking somethng obvious?
-
- P.S. I also tried Calling and Storing the .DAT files one by one with the /x
- switch. This forced a complete reindexing, but the problem remained the same.
-