Special Characters in iTunes Search

If I'm searching for "González" and I enter "Gonzalez" in the search box, iTunes used to return hits for "González". Now, I have to enter "González" specifically- "Gonzalez" returns no results. Is there a way to get iTunes to treat accented characters (like "á") as their ASCII equivalents for the purposes of search? Maybe detecting the language & keyboard settings? This definitely wasn't a problem before, although I'm not sure if it started with iTunes 9. I just happened to notice it after upgrading to iTunes 9.

I have the same issue. When I search for Varese (a composer) I get one album; but when I search for Varèse (with the accent) I get several albums. Since CDs with composers with foreign names often are inconsistent about accents, I need iTunes search feature to be INCLUSIVE.

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I recently downloaded the newest version of iTunes 7.7. I have hundreds of files with special characters (accents, umlauts, etc) and iTunes continues to change these characters to nonsense characters every time I play that particular song. For example:
Liebst du um Schönheit ---> Liebst du um Sch^nheit
or the composer
Camille Saint-Saëns ---> Camille Saint-SaÎns
This is VERY irritating because it only affects the files that I've imported onto my computer and NOT the files I downloaded from the iTunes store. You can try to fix the files all you want but each time you play them, it switches the characters. Does anyone know how to fix this? or how to contact Apple to get them to release a new version? (or at least give us access to the old version) It has only started to do this when I downloaded and installed 7.7. Any help would be appreciated.

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If that alone doesn't do it, some of the fonts themselves may be damaged. You can replace all, or any number of the fonts OS X came with without having to reinstall the entire OS. The instructions to do so are at the bottom of my article, Font Management in OS X. After replacing any fonts, clear the font cache files again.
Also, two fonts that are known to cause problems are Times Phonetic and Helvetica Fractions. If either are on your system, don't just disable them in your font manager, but locate and delete them.
The link, or one of the links above directs you to my personal web site. While the information is free, it does ask for a contribution. As such, I am required by Apple's rules for these discussions to include the following disclaimer.
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

Sql to remove special characters from my search

Hi everyone. I'm very new to sql and have hit another road block. I am doing a query on my database in oracle sql developer. I want to search manufacturer numbers but sometimes they were entered with dashes ( 999-99-9999) and other times not (999999999) is it possible to apply a function to overlook the dash in both my query numbers and in the database mfr_nbr column?
any help would be appreciated.
Kelly

ok, I have built a nesting string of replaces to remove all of my special characters and it worked perfectly but now I am not sure where to place the nest later in the string to remove it from my search of mfr numbers. The reason I need to do it again is because I want to remove the characters so I am searching in terms of " apples to apples" so to speak.   here is my string so far. I still need to add the part where I put in my search for the manuf_item_nbr. my question is where do I need to place the nested replace's to remove it from my numbers I'm going to search?
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vndr_nm, '' AS vndr_id, '' AS unspsc_nbr,'' AS iss_account FROM ROI.CNTRCT_PRC_LIST
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purch_qoe_txt AS item_qty, '', '' AS tier_prc_amt,'' AS list_prc_amt,
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I am starting to use LR3 on my iMac (Lion OS)
I noticed that when I search for a filename that contains special characters (e.g. "é" or "ç" or "à"), Lightroom cannot find the word.
So if I look for file petit-dejeuner, LR3 will find it but when I look for petit-déjeuner, LR will not find any picture that contains this word.
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Interesting. I get somewhat different results from you (LR 3.6/Windows 7, LR 3.5/Mac 10.7). Given the filename "08012011-Emma au petit déjeuner-7.JPG", the following doesn't work:
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Hi All,
We have a issue with respect to TREX in our Portal.
The issue here is that the special character (e.g. u2122) in the document title is shown up as some unknown character in the Search results.
For e.g. Consider that ABCu2122 is the title of one document in the repository. If the Search query is ABC, then the search will return all the documents containing "ABC". Now, the ABCu2122 document is shown as "ABC?" in the search result.
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Hi Adren answer is already in my first solution...
These are Special characters and If you use these characters (in a search term, the system searches the content of documents or the text properties for the term before and the term after the special character.
It will always show ABC instead of ABCu2122.
But one thing you can do is..
Try making search in this manner..
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{ABCu2122*} i.e. using asterick sign on right side of ABCu2122 only.
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I am facing a strange issue , during Address Cleanse Transformation , I am getting characters like 'ß' in some Address Suggestion fields . I need to remove these characters .
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What is the use of special charaters like
in the search string in the Find & Replace of ABAP editor ?
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VB...
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use the match case or match whole word only..
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The ease of use of special characters has been a major strength of the Mac OS since the very foundation. Now I find in Lion I hvae to do a very Windoze-like thing and open a Special Characters dialog and search for the character I want from a confusing jumble of them. The use of apple-e for an accent egu was intuitie for me the first time I discovered it, and nearly all accents and special characters were easy for me to figure out without resorting to a separate window. (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3871) It wasn't broke--why did they fix it?

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Apple, please address this issue!!! Searching and special characters

I've found at least one other topic here regarding this issue, but Apple has yet to address it, or even confirm that it's in fact an issue.
A big portion of my library consists of international artists, many who have special/nonstandard characters in their names (e.g. "Tiësto"). In previous versions of iTunes, I could search for "Tiesto" (note the absence of the umlaut over the 'e') and all of those tracks would appear. However, after upgrading to iTunes 9, I'm forced to search for "Tiësto" in order to view those tracks.
Thinking about this issue, it would seem that this is normal behavior, as an artist named "Pàz" isn't necessarily the same as "Paz". But the reality is that NO ONE wants to take the time to search for the alt-code of a special character, and then type it in. Additionally, most people (including me) have a number of reasons for not renaming the artist to conform to standard characters.
Clearly, something has changed between iTunes 8 and 9. And it's incredibly frustrating. A big chunk of my library is virtually inaccessible to me now, unless I search for terms that don't contain special characters.
Apple, **PLEASE** address this issue. I'm not the only one with the problem and it's become a huge pain in my side to have to work around this.

I don't see how it's sloppy or why there should be any reason that it shouldn't have given you both.
Even putting aside that gracenote and others don't have consistent spelling in their databases, that when you download from the iTunes store, who knows what you're going to get, so that one's library could be all over the place and one might not even notice it, accents and other markings don't change the fact that a u is the same letter as ú.
Yes, it's pronounced different. Yes, the difference is very important. But it's the same base letter. And even if it's considered a different letter in another language, in English we have 26 letters and all the accents and tildes and umlauts don't make them a new letter, which is what we're talking about here.
It's a huge pain that looking for an album that has "Zürich" in the field and I type in "Zurich" I can't find it. I have to think about if I really do have that album, maybe I deleted it by accident, etc. And then I think to type "rich" and then it pops up.
That's way too many steps. I don't know keyboard shortcuts and I don't want to learn them. In English, it should be letters, not characters, that count.

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Hi.
I'm facing a real annoying problem with text search query, and everything I've tried failed...
I have a table with a varchar column indexed by text index. The column contains special characters like '&', ',' and mainly- '-'. Since I want to disregard these special characters for searches I have created a basic lexer of type skipjoins for the column index. So now, the phrase 'aaa-bbb something'. for example, can be searched without '-', like this: 'aaabbb'. But I want to make it possible for this phrase to be searched with and without '-'. So, that when the user enters 'aaabbb' he will get the same results as when he enters 'aaa-bbb'.
In other words, This condition:
WHERE CONTAINS(column, '<query> <textquery grammar="context"> <progression><seq>'
||'aaabbb'
||'</seq></progression> </textquery> </query> ' ,1)> 2
Will return the same results as this condition:
WHERE CONTAINS(r.POI_NAME, '<query> <textquery grammar="context"> <progression><seq>'
||'aaa-bbb'
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WHERE CONTAINS(r.POI_NAME, '<query> <textquery grammar="context"> <progression><seq>'
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||'{aaab}'
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||'aaa-b'
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In short, and to simplify my question, I'm looking for a way to escape all characters (not only the minus sign) except for a specific character. Kind of like 'unescaping' a specific character (the '%' sign) within braces {}. Or, another way would be to remove the space that is added to the phrase inside the braces at the end of the word, preventing me from adding "%" at the end of the word, outside the braces.
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                                               str2
from dual
STR         STR2
a.da-df%df* a\.da\-df%df\*
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||'aaab'
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Best regards
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According to your description, my understanding is that the Author showed incorrect character in SharePoint 2013 search result page.
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