On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Jewett, Jim J wrote:
> Could you be more specific with the example?
>
> For instance, if I'm reading something in French, and I want to look
> for the word student, that could be represented as
>
> eleve (assuming you have the same font)
> e'l`eve (a common transcription)
> eleve (another common transcription, though less so now)
Currently, if you choose "drop Latin 1 accents" (one of the current xlit
options), you can type eleve with no accents, or eleve with correct
accents, and it'll match.
> Or are you saying that it will make "eleve", "eleve", and even "Eleve" the
> same, but it just won't be able to handle "e'l`eve" because of the change
> in length?
Right.
alex
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