Configure Tangible Characters

TangibleCharacters is a configuration parameter that you can set when using the Eduction SDK, the Eduction Server, or the Eduction command-line utility (edktool). It specifies a list of characters to treat as part of a word, rather than as word boundaries.

Some of the entities in the IDOL PII Package Eduction Grammars require tangible characters to be set in order to perform correctly (see the descriptions of the entities in Eduction Grammar Reference).

When you use Eduction to search for matches, TangibleCharacters applies across all of your chosen entities. If you use multiple entities that have different recommended tangible character sets, you might need to take some extra steps. For example:

For more information about the TangibleCharacters configuration parameter, refer to the Eduction User Guide.