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barbaragailsmith1
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May 11 in Get Involved/Indexing

Anyone know when we'll be able to add letters with diacritics to the names?

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  • Amy Archibald
    Amy Archibald ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 11

    You can do this already as long as you select the correct language for the name. See this help article for instructions:
    How do I enter a name from a different language into Family Tree?

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  • maryellenstevensbarnes1
    maryellenstevensbarnes1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 12

    In all these "quick" opportunities one cannot use diacritics

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  • barbaragailsmith1
    barbaragailsmith1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 12

    I should have been more clear. I'm not talking about Family Tree, but Name Review in AI indexing. I don't know how Family Search can leave those out. I guess Spanish isn't as bad as a lot of others, but I wonder what's going to happen with other languages (Europe, Russia, Finland) where they're not just diacritics but individual letters.

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  • Dellory Matthews
    Dellory Matthews ✭✭✭✭
    May 12

    I put the Character Map (Windows computer) on my taskbar. I can use that to insert very many different foreign characters.

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  • barbaragailsmith1
    barbaragailsmith1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 12

    Thanks, Dellory Matthews. I finally figured out how to do that.

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  • Mark McKenzie_1
    Mark McKenzie_1 ✭✭✭
    May 12

    This brings a question to mind about how the FamilySearch search engines use or don't use diacritics. I think that if I use a diacritic in a search it is treated as a non-diacritc when looking for indexed or full text search records. To be 'most correct' adding the diacritic would 'do no harm' when it comes to searches. Or at least it appears that way…

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