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Searching special characters
Dec 20th, 2004 at 9:51pm
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I have an opera database and since the names of operas and singers are in different languages I put in the letters with accents, umlauts, etc. My problem is that when I search using the names with just common English spellings Sesame will not pull up the record being searched for.  Ex: "Aida" will not pull up "Aïda." Is there a way around this or can Sesame be "fixed" so that I is not so particular. Q&A did not care.
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Re: Searching special characters
Reply #1 - Dec 20th, 2004 at 10:17pm
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Hello Bob,

If the Opera name has diacritic characters in it, you will need to enter those same characters when you go to search for the record.

To make the ï character in sesame, with a US keyboard, you have to hit these keys.
F12 : i

The complete table of diacritic characters, and how to make them with a US keyboard, can be found on the faq page under the general section.

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Reply #2 - Dec 20th, 2004 at 11:10pm
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Hi Ray —
Thank you for the quick reply. I was hoping that I would not have to enter the diacritic characters. I will probably simplify things and change all to English spellings.
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Reply #3 - Dec 21st, 2004 at 1:11pm
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If there is any question as to whether or not the letter is spelled with a diacritic, you can substitute it with the "?" (match any single character) in the search spec. So to search on either Aida or Aïda, use A?da in the search spec.

We hope to have an fully internationalized version of Sesame, but there are several factors outside of our control that need to be managed, primarily UTF-8 support across the platforms and libraries.
  
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Reply #4 - Dec 21st, 2004 at 10:06pm
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Yes, using wild card characters helps tremendously and works great since I know where I need to use one, in most cases.
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Reply #5 - Dec 21st, 2004 at 10:34pm
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Here's another approach:
Why don't you add an extra field, with the 'normal' text in it, for searching?
You could even have a keyword field with a number of entries..

Search: Verdi; Aida; Callas   ... etc

There *might* be programming which will convert these high ascii characters to 'normal' ones and so would automate this process, but I don't know it.
  
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