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For more info on search types:
 
For more info on search types:
  
* Selecting '''Anywhere''' 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.
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* Selecting '''Exact match''' will match your search terms <u>exactly as you wrote them</u> in any of the possible fields.  
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! Anywhere
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| This 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.
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! Exact match
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| This 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.  
 
** 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. For that, try "'''Anywhere'''".
 
** Searching '''chos dbyings''' will only list entries with '''chos dbyings''' in the ''Wylie'' field. It will not list '''chos dbyings ye shes''', for example. For that, try "'''Anywhere'''".
 
** This search type is '''case sensitive'''.
 
** This search type is '''case sensitive'''.
* Selecting any of the different language fields will perform your search only within that particular language.  
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**Looking for '''chos nyid''' within Chinese will [obviously] yield no results.  
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! Language selections
**Also, all non-western scripts should be typed in Unicode.
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| Selecting any of the different language fields will perform your search only within that particular language entry.  
* 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.
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** Looking for '''chos nyid''' within Chinese will [obviously] yield no results.  
* 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.
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** Also, all non-western scripts should be typed in Unicode.
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! Phonetics
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| This 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.
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! Term Definition
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| This will only search within longer definitions from glossaries that contain them. Longer definitions are actual explanations of terms, as opposed to simple English translations.
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