[FX.php List] Performing searches in French

[Bob Patin]

Well in the DB he's using accented characters, but after speaking  
with him last night, he decided to do away with the accent  
characters, which will fix the problem.

Thanks,

Bob


On Jul 1, 2007, at 2:39 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> UTF-8 as HTML encoding I asume, next do check if the name fields are
> stored with Unicode indexing, opposed to some language, or mayb French
> should be the indexing?
>
> ggt667
>
> On 7/1/07, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>> I have a Canadian client whose database contains names with accents;
>> if I try searching for them, the searches fail even though I know the
>> data exists. If I rewrite a test record using the same letters but
>> without accents, the search succeeds.
>>
>> Is there a META tag that I can use that might fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
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