How Unicode affects searching in EMu

The incorporation of Unicode into EMu resulted in the searching mechanism being extended to handle all code points that have a base representation. In essence this is all graphic code points except for marks and spaces, namely:

• letters

• numbers

• punctuation

• symbols

The inclusion of punctuation as an index term means that punctuation may be included in searches and the high speed indexes will be used to locate matches.

 

There is a simple rule to determine how to format a search in EMu:

All graphic characters, except for spaces and marks, in a search are matched as the character. Where the special meaning of a character (e.g. @) is required, the character must be preceded by a backslash (\). The only exception to this rule is that the backslash character itself must be entered twice (\\) where the actual character is required.

Tip: See Types of search for details about how special characters are handled in searches.