Re: [Gnumed-devel] Patient whose name (in the public db) is in a different alphabet... Greek to me?

[Karsten Hilbert]

> There is a patient who has (or who at least this morning had) inbox  
> results by name of
> 
>       Περαντώνη, Ms Ελένη (x)
> 
> just wondering... how manageable for the praxis assistants to search  
> for such a name i.e. how to input from the keyboard, even if the  
> staff would be familiar with the language?
> 
> I am wondering if such patients would often use a common-name (alias)  
> in the local language

That is a perfectly valid Greek name. Greek keyboards can perfectly well
enter those characters. For people not having a Greek keyboard but
needing to search for the patient I would recommend googling a greek
text and having the patient cut-n-paste the appropriate letters into
the search box. GNUmed can (should be able) perfectly fine search
for greek names.

Karsten
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