[Corpora-List] European Constitution in parallel

[Joerg Tiedemann]

thanks for your reply.
I changed the encoding for the CWB indeces to iso-8859-13. I hope it 
worked. maybe you could have a short look if you have some time. (the 
OPUS query interface)

thanks for your help!


Jörg

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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Andrius Utka wrote:

> Dear Joerg, 
> As far as I know Lithuanian uses ISO 8859-13. Not sure about Latvian.
> Best,
> Andrius
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> >follow-up ....
> >
> >I just realized that there are some additional problems with character 
> >encodings. Latvian and Lithuanian should be supported by 
> >ISO-8859-4 according to information I found. However, I got serious 
> >trouble when converting from UTF-8 to ISO for these languages. Did the 
> >alphabet change recently or is the ISO standard just useless?
> >
> >Now, I changed the Latvian and Lithuanian texts from the EUconst corpus
> >to 
> >UTF-8 in the CWB index. Looks good but is difficult to query for 
> >diacritics. Check:
> >http://logos.uio.no/cgi-bin/opus/opuscqp.pl?corpus=EUconst;lang=lt
> >http://logos.uio.no/cgi-bin/opus/opuscqp.pl?corpus=EUconst;lang=lv
> >
> >Let me know if there is a 8-bit code that can be (is) used for these 
> >2 languages.
> >
> >
> >Jörg
> >
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