On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Brooks, Travis C. wrote: > The example that came up here was Bruning, Bruening, Brüning > > The point was made that Google gives the same results for _all three_. > This turns out not to be true at all...
Yes; it would be surprising otherwise. > but it was recognized as a "good idea" Note sure about that. > I would not be averse to doing something like this, but in our case, > authorID will fix this for real. Provided that we store alternative spellings inside author records. Otherwise we would still have to have some facility to be able to type `ue' and find `ü'. This could be handy for other generic cases, e.g. `Muenchen' vs `München', without having to have every such case in the synonym/authority table. Best regards -- Tibor Simko
