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h3ct0r · 02-19-2025, 03:01 PM

I have a problem with some of my texts which contain diacritics (principally apices and diaeresis) and ligatures (principally æ, œ) being encoded as stand alone letters whereas my dictionaries don't include them at all and can't identify the word.

Does anyone know how to format my texts so that:
Æ is always recognized as AE
Œ is OE
Ë is E
ÁÉÍÓÚ is AEIOU

I want to do this without replacing the diacritics in the text. Or conversely make the dictionaries themselves recognized those letter as such

Please help me if you have any information
Thank you

02-19-2025, 03:01 PM	#1
h3ct0r Connoisseur Posts: 58 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2023 Device: glo hd	dictionaries not recognizing ligatures and diacritics I have a problem with some of my texts which contain diacritics (principally apices and diaeresis) and ligatures (principally æ, œ) being encoded as stand alone letters whereas my dictionaries don't include them at all and can't identify the word. Does anyone know how to format my texts so that: Æ is always recognized as AE Œ is OE Ë is E ÁÉÍÓÚ is AEIOU I want to do this without replacing the diacritics in the text. Or conversely make the dictionaries themselves recognized those letter as such Please help me if you have any information Thank you