Julian,

thanks for your reply...

> asksam does not recognize special characters as part of a word

Something around this I tried to explain. Precisely said, the special
characters are not being recognized when choosing "Find whole words only".
Without this option, AS has got no problem to find a string like "América",
that means: The "é" is being recognized correctly. The proof is: "America"
will not be found with "América".

However, what's the solution to this? Why doesn't an ordinary editor like
WordPad have any problems with this? And askSam, specializing on text
retrieval, does.

> It would be great if askSam were able to interprete any
> special character as its plain counterpart since the fuzzy
> option very often behaves to "generous" (finding to much garbage).

I agree with this, as far as it refers to the Fuzzy Search. But this would
be no solutions to the problem I described. Imagine a "fuzzy search &
replace" - it would end in disaster.

Regards,
Florian

--Original message posted, unfortunately, as "Bug in local search" ---

asksam does not recognize special characters as part of a word

When doing a local search (within a document), askSam seems to ignore
that accented vowels like Spanish í or á or German Umlaute like äöü
are to be considered part of a word. So it finds a "lonely" s in
París (spanish for Paris) with "Find whole words only" activated.

Talking about special characters:
It would be great if askSam were able to interprete any special
character as its plain counterpart since the fuzzy option very often
behaves to "generous" (finding to much garbage).

Julian