Umlauts II.

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carsten.harnisch1
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Umlauts II.

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I want to create a search on a 4 language system using German, English, French and Italian content. Any vocals with akzents or umlauts should be indexed and found by the plain letter. So anything like 'Äxxx' should be found like 'Axxx'.
Any way to do that ?
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It is possible to do, although you would need to create a custom locale which has the lowercase form of 'Ä' as 'a', and the use "set locale = 'XYZ'" with the name of the locale you created.
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What do you mean with a 'custom locale' ? How can we do that ? Actually we need 4 'customs locale' for the different languages, right ?
We will run Windows 2000 in production.
Any samples for that ?
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If they all use the same character set you would only need 1 locale. Unfortunately Microsoft does not support the creation of custom locales for Windows.
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