Setting to turn on case-sensitive indexing?

[Kaanchan]

Hi,

Is there a way to turn on case-sensitive indexing?

I'm testing AntConc with legacy-encoded Devanagari text. When I use the Word tab/feature to generate a comprehensive word list, I noticed the results weren't producing legible Devanagari. It turns out that every ASCII value in a token is being converted to its lower-case equivalent. In the case of this corpus, that results in character loss!

Example:

Öõý -> öõý  // first char is getting converted to lower-case

 है। ->  ैंै।  // the legacy encoding uses both characters for unique/different Devanagari characters in the ASCII table so we get a different word being stored in the index and lose the original!

If it is possible to set case-sensitivity on for indexing, this tool would work on legacy encoded documents, as well. AntConc is a very good tool for doing a number of tests and updating these legacy documents to their Unicode equivalent.

Thanks for any feedback you can provide!

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi,

I think you just need to click the "Case" option above the search area before generating your word list. Then, the results will be case-sensitive. If that doesn't work, please let me know.

Regards,

Laurence.

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[Kaanchan]

I'm embarrassed to not have seen/registered that. Thank you, that did the trick.

The AntConc UI is very clean, spacious, simple, and user-friendly. If it is easy to add mouse hover information, I can imagine that clarifying purposes of various settings available for those of us who don't read the help docs first.

[Laurence Anthony]

That's great! 

I could add hover-over help notes, but often these can be quite annoying and people would start asking how to turn them off. Let's see what others think.

Laurence.

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