Difference between revisions of "Form:GlossarySearch"
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* Selecting '''Any term''' will perform your search against any language fields. It will also include results <u>containing</u> your search string within a term's definition or translation. | * Selecting '''Any term''' will perform your search against any language fields. It will also include results <u>containing</u> your search string within a term's definition or translation. | ||
* Selecting '''Exact match''' will match your search terms <u>exactly as you wrote them</u> in any of the possible fields. You have to be sure about what you are searching. | * Selecting '''Exact match''' will match your search terms <u>exactly as you wrote them</u> in any of the possible fields. You have to be sure about what you are searching. | ||
| − | + | **Searching '''chos dbyings''' will only list entries with '''chos dbyings''' in the ''Wylie'' field. It will not list '''chos dbyings ye shes''', for example. | |
* Selecting any of the different language fields will perform your search only within that particular language. | * Selecting any of the different language fields will perform your search only within that particular language. | ||
| − | + | **Looking for '''chos nyid''' within Chinese will [obviously] yield no results. | |
| − | + | **Also, all non-western scripts should be typed in Unicode. | |
* Selecting '''Phonetics''' will only search within our catch-all anglicized field, be it english pronunciation of Tibetan (non-wylie), or westernized Sanskrit (i.e. without proper diacritics, etc.) or Chinese phonetics, etc. | * Selecting '''Phonetics''' will only search within our catch-all anglicized field, be it english pronunciation of Tibetan (non-wylie), or westernized Sanskrit (i.e. without proper diacritics, etc.) or Chinese phonetics, etc. | ||
* Selecting '''Term Definition''' will only search within longer definitions from glossaries that contain them. Longer definitions are actual explanations of terms, as opposed to simple English translations. | * Selecting '''Term Definition''' will only search within longer definitions from glossaries that contain them. Longer definitions are actual explanations of terms, as opposed to simple English translations. | ||
| − | + | **Though please note that '''this type of search is not recommended''' as currently, the system indexes only the first 40 characters of a definition for searching. | |
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