Tips for users of German, French, Spanish, etc.

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Tips for Users of German, French, Spanish, etc. - March 2, 2004

Biblioscape full text indexing engine indexes text using ANSI driver by default. If you enter German umlauts, the "Fast Search" wont' be able to find it. Although other searches like "Advanced Search" works, you may want to make Fast Search work for umlauts as well because Fast Search is used for natural citation matching. If most of your references are in a language like German, you may notice the sorting order is not correct when the ANSI driver is used. To solve the above problems, you need to change the language driver for table "bib" from ANSI to the language of your choice.

1. First, please download an utility at http://www.biblioscape.com/download/dbsys.zip. User WinZip (www.winzip.com) or other software to unzip the file.

2. Run DBSYS. go to menu command "Utilities | Restructure...". Go to the folder where you database is stored, select the table "bib".

3. Find the combo box "Language" and change it to the language of your choice. Click the "Save" button to make the changes.

Note: You may want to do the same for the table "note" which is used for the Notes module in Biblioscape.