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Searching Using Regular and ALA Display
Modes
When entering words into the text boxes on the search
screen, you should always use the simple mode of representing characters,
i.e., regardless of the display settings you have set up for your session.
Do not type in any diacritics when searching.
In most cases, it will be obvious which standard ASCII
character to use (e.g. simply drop the diacritic and type the plain
letter). However, certain uncommon and complex characters must be represented
(in both text searching and display of records) in special ways:
| original character |
type this to search |
| Polish Slash L |
 ,  |
L, l |
| Scandinavian O |
 ,  |
O, o |
| Vietnamese D |
 ,  |
D, d |
| thorn |
 ,  |
T, t |
| Vietnamese O |
 ,  |
O, o
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| Vietnamese U |
 ,  |
U, u |
| eth |
 |
d |
To represent words using ligatures, a more complicated input has to
be used. Refer to the following table; note that entering searches for
these digraphs on the Macintosh is different from entering the same
digraphs in a word document on the Macintosh using the AlaBas font,
due to the differences in the way the entries are stored on the remote
server and on the Macintosh. The values to type in on the Macintosh
are only valid if you choose the MacRoman/User Defined encoding set
for the search page before entering a search.
| original character displays as |
type this to search (Windows) |
type this to search (Macintosh-MacRoman/User Defined)
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| digraph |
 |
oe |
Alt-0182 (¶) |
Opt-d (∂) |
| digraph |
 |
OE |
Alt-0166 (¦) |
Opt-7 (¶) |
| digraph |
 |
ae |
Alt-0181 (µ) |
Opt-m (µ) |
| digraph |
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AE |
Alt-0165 (¥) |
Opt-8 (•) |
| "plus/minus" symbol |
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+- |
Alt-0171 («) |
Shift-Opt-e (´) |
Since the practices of authors may differ, make sure you try searching
for such digraphs and character combinations in both ways. For example,
to retrieve all instances of Cdès or Coedès, you
would need to search for both "C¶des" and "Coedes"
(in Windows), or "C∂des" and "Coedes" (on
the Macintosh).
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