7. How to Perform a Search of Terms Containing Apostrophes
By default freeWAIS-sf allows to index characters A-Z, a-z and 0-9.
At BioPD we also offer indexing of these four
characters: + (plus) - (minus, hyphen) ' (apostrophe, ASCII 39) and _
(underscore).
While +, - and _ are managed like the default
characters, searching for terms containing ' (apostrophe) is not
plain.
You always have to put words containing apostrophes inside quotes.
The typical cases in which you can search for a term with an apostrophe are:
- Surnames with accent on the last character
- Words (terms) with accent on the last character
In the Italian language many terms have an accent on the last character.
Unfortunately HTML language needs a particular representation of accented characters.
So we decided to change the accent on the last character into an apostrophe.
Words like università were changed into universita'.
Some examples on how to query words (surnames) containing an apostrophe inside or at the and
are reported in the document How to Perform a Search in a
Fields with Names and/or Surnames.
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