Re: Alphabetizing accented characters

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From: Mark Johnsson
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 06:07

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>I have a bibliography with the occasional German or French name with
>accented characters in it. I have recently noticed that EndNote Plus 1.2
>does not alphabetize these names properly. For example, the name "Munster"
>with an umlaut over the 'u' is alphabetized after "Muret," although
>convention would put it before (ignoring the umlaut for the purposes of
>alphabetization).
>

Worse, searches will not recognize the word unless the diacritical marks
are entered in the search box. Can searches be made to ignore diacritical
marks?


Mark Johnsson (mark@octopus.wr.usgs.gov)
U.S. Geological Survey/Stanford University

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