[Corpora-List] accented characters in webcorp

[Antoinette Renouf]

Dear Tony
The latest version of WebCorp, which has been made available for
beta-testing to all ICAME members including yourself, generates
accented output with no trouble. For `né', it retrieves hundreds of
instances (before it times out). Perhaps you are using the earlier
version?
Antoinette

p.s. queries about the system can also be sent to the `Feedback' facility 
on WebCorp.

> From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4 at uol.com.br>
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> Dear list members
> 
> Does anyone know how to search for words with accented characters on WebCorp
> (http://www.webcorp.org.uk/)?
> 
> I wanted to get a concordance for "né". Google reports about 2,630,000
> occurrences; WebCorp, on the other hand, returns just 6 lines. When I typed
> "né" (without the quotes), it returned just 2 occurrences.
> 
> thanks ahead
> 
> cheers
> tony.
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> Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
> LAEL, PUC/SP
> (Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
> tony4 at uol.com.br
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Antoinette Renouf
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University of Liverpool
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