Re: [OT] o-circumflex

[Asmus Freytag]

At 09:04 PM 9/7/01 -0700, Mark Davis wrote:
>I disagree. What you want is a merged database field. See
>http://www.macchiato.com/slides/icu_collation.ppt
>
>Mark

Mark,

David took the remainder of our discussion off the alias. I won't repeat it 
here, just to note that we've agreed that merged database fields are the 
answer to (some) of the scenarios that we've discussed, but that there are 
cases (like indexing a mixed corpus where both naive and naïve occur) where 
it might indeed make sense to ignore accent differences altogether - 
although, as is often the case, dictionary-based pre- or post processing or 
manual adjustments might give better results yet.

Thanks for your pointer to the presentation.

A./