Alphabet Customization
Menu option: Options > Preferences > Letters and words
The Edit Alphabet dialog box displays a list of all of the characters and how dtSearch classifies each one. dtSearch classifies characters into four categories: letter, space, hyphen, and ignore.
| Category | Meaning |
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Letter |
A searchable character. All of the characters in the alphabet (a-z and A-Z) and all of the digits (0-9) should be classified as letters. |
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Space |
A character that causes a word break. For example, if you classify the period (".") as a space character, then dtSearch would process U.S.A. as three separate words: U, S and A. |
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Ignored |
A character that is disregarded in processing text. For example, if you classify the period as ignore instead of space then dtSearch would process U.S.A. as one word: USA. |
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Hyphen |
Hyphen characters can receive special processing in dtSearch. By default, only the '-' is defined as a hyphen. To specify the rules for processing hyphens, click Options > Preferences > Indexing Options. |
For characters that are letters, you can specify whether the character is a lower case or upper case letter.
Only characters in the Unicode range 33-127 can be modified using Alphabet Customization. Other character properties are determined by the Unicode specification. See www.unicode.org for more information about Unicode.