> Patrick Dugal wrote:
>
> > But the majority of our users would really like to be able to find documents
>containing "polym�res", without having to type the accented character(s).
>Currently, htsearch finds no documents on "polymeres", and that unacceptable for our
>users.
> >
> > Is there anything you can suggest for this situation?
>
> Off hand I'd suggest that you use the synonym database, but I wasn't
> able to find real clear documentation on how to do that.
>
> bon chance,
>
> Doug
Couldn't there be a change which would do the following:
1 - have a reference file which had "mappings", i.e.
è = e
é = e
� = e
2 - whenever a single word like "polym�res" was encountered,
the word would be remapped into a new word using the
mapping table, and then both words would be indexed,
i.e. "polym�res" and polymeres". Then when a person typed
in "polymere" they would get a hit for "polym�res"...
It appears that this already happens for case (i.e. when i search on
"montr�al" i get hits for Montreal. This is probably not a mapping but
just everything being cast to lower case in the database).
thanks,
Glen Newton
CISTI NRC Canada
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