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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 10:36:22 IST
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- From: "Itamar Even-Zohar,
- Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Ibid and accents
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 12 Nov 92 17:45:41 EST from <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
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- I store the DAT files only in compressed mode. If I don't,
- then when I switch to NB 3.1 (I still work in 3.1; 4.0/Lingua
- is still a toy for me), different characters are displayed
- rather than the original accented ones.
-
- In Lingua, I have no difficulty in searching the accented characters.
-
- However, I have NOT tested non-ASCII character search (such as
- characters with hachek, macron, underdot, ogoniok, etc.).
-
- If you have completely switched (moved) to NB 4.0, perhaps
- compression is no longer necessary.
-
- Itamar E-Z
-
-
- PS. Unfortunately, when you EXPORT from Lingua, 3-byte
- characters (sequences) are NOT converted to some refular
- ASCII characters. If you wish to export a DAT file (for
- non-NB users, for instance), you will have to manually
- convert those characters.
-
- More unfortunately, I don't know if there is a possibility
- to have a substitution table with several characters converted
- to a single character (the regular subst tables are of the
- opposite type), which could have enabled a smooth convertion.
- (For example, ASCII 255 ASCII x ASCII y=e acute.)
-