Dana Van Meter <vanme...@ias.edu> wrote: > This may not be at all relevant here, but I have been noticing for at least > a year now that I have difficulty searching anything with an apostrophe in > LC's authority file. If I copy a heading which contains an apostrophe from > the body of a record in LC's online catalog, and then search the heading in > the authority file I get no results. But if I delete the apostrophe, and > type in a new apostrophe, I pull up the heading in the name authority file. >
Speculation on my part, but you may be copying a "smart apostrophe" or the HTML equivalent as part of the string. That may be messing up the search operation. -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>
