The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #400   Message #11723
Posted By: dick greenhaus
03-Sep-97 - 10:23 AM
Thread Name: Req/ADD: French folk songs
Subject: RE:
We have a few problems in dealing with non-English-language songs. a) We haven't found a way to search on accented leters, although we can enter such in the database. b)Our contributors seem to overwhelmingly favor English-language materials. c) I usually wind up editing, and I'm totally incompetent in any language except English.Considering the wild folk-spelling variations we receive, I think that the editing is essential.

Having said all this, I'd love to get more non-English-language material. Anybody have any suggestions on how best to deal with the problems?