Re: [IUG] CJK Diacritics in Millennium

[NINA BLOCK <hysng at sfsu dot edu>]

Our 880 fields are indexed.

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Boggs, John wrote:

> Hi all,
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> One of my librarians has pointed out that we cannot search for Chinese
> records using the actual Chinese characters - we need to use the PinYin
> transliteration.
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> My first thought was that this might be an indexing issue - maybe we
> need to specify that 880 fields are indexed, and ours aren't.  In
> perusing the manual, though, I come up with some contradictory
> information.  On one page it says "If your library has acquired the
> ability to index diacritics..."  But elsewhere it says simply, "A CJK
> record can be retrieved using either CJK or romanized characters."  So,
> either you need to "acquire" something, or the system just does it,
> depending on the page in the manual you're looking at.  The FAQs on
> CSDirect don't have an answer.
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> So I'm throwing this out to the list because I'm likely to get a quick
> answer one way or the other:  Is anybody out there in userland able to
> search for Chinese records using Chinese characters, and if so, how did
> you get it working?
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> John D. Boggs, PLAN Database Manager
> Peninsula Library System
> 2471 Flores Street
> San Mateo, CA  94403-2273
> (650)571-6799 x3062
> boggs at plsinfo dot org <blocked::mailto:boggs at plsinfo dot org>
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