Acrobat 10: We cannot search for words containing French accents.

For example, if we copy a word like "Transporté" and paste it in the search field in Acrobat (Reader, Standard and Pro), it appears "transport´e" and the search fails.

What app are you copying from? It works for me to paste (for example) café from NotePad. It also works to type café directly into the search box.

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I am using Adobe Reader Ver 10.1.1 (All updates)
I have a pdf document in which I am unable to search for words. No words in the document are found even though they do exist. If I copy a word from within the document and paste it into the search criteria then instead of getting the word that I copied, I get substitute characters and it can in fact find these characters as the word being searched.
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Thank you Dave Merchant and try67 for your responses. As per my previous post, I contacted the company re the catalogue and they have responded favourably. I'll include their response because it gives the reason for the search failure as document compression which you might find interesting. I'll await their new catalogue and see if they have fixed the problem.
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I don't know how similar the example that you provided is to your actual problem. Synonyms are not the only relations that you can set. You an also use related terms and hierarchies using broader and narrower terms. In the following example, I have created citrus as a broader term and created lemon, lime, and orange as narrower terms underneath citrus. I have them demonstrated how you can query to return all items from the same category that lemon is in, by first finding the broader term citrus above it, then searching for all narrower terms underneath that. I have included some intermediary results that you don't need to run, just for better understanding of how the query is formed.
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2    (test_col varchar2(60))
3 /
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2 into test_tab values ('lemon')
3 into test_tab values ('lime')
4 into test_tab values ('orange')
5 into test_tab values ('toaster oven')
6 select * from dual
7 /
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2 /
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4 from dual
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3            (test_col,
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7 /
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ctrl+shift+F
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the path string is truncated. Truncation in its middle part.
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They differ by theirs middle section only.
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Roboter robots
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
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mainPanel.add(topPanel);
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} catch (IOException ioe) {
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But I need a solution with autocomplete for search for words in a txt. file.What is your question? What have you tried so far? What are you having difficulty with?
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