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Re: Queue sorting with German characters, i.e. u and ü
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| Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately it will not work since
those Umlauts are all over (also inside the words) and to make these
type of changes about 10,000 times, with new words being added
continuously it will be an impossible task.
Paul S. Person wrote:
> On 24 Jul 2006 06:15:08 -0700, "Gerd" <schmittinger@unitech.co.za>
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> This may not be at all what you want, but it works for me ...
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> I have a database which includes the titles of maps (Fritsch
> Wanderkarten 1:50.000) purchased when I was stationed in Germany 30
> years ago; some of the titles include umlauted vowels. What I did was
> to create a separate field, called "Sorter", in which I put the titles
> without the umlauts. Thus
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> Sorter Word
> Arbeit Arbeit
> argern =E4rgern
> Axt Axt
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> You then use Sorter as your Key Field but display Word (or whatever
> you call that field) for the user to see. This will solve the problem
> stated, but may or may not satisfy any other requirements you may
> have. Searching a browse box with an incremental locator, for example,
> would have to be done ignoring the umlauts, which may or may not be
> acceptable.
> --
> "I find that a great many things which have been conclusively
> demonstrated by the Ancients are unintelligible to the
> bulk of the Moderns owing to their ignorance"
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