How to Map Characters with Diacritics, etc. on Index Page

[felldownawell]

I have a handful of artists that have names starting with characters with diacritics, umlauts, etc.

As by default the browse links on the index page do not produce lists that include these artists, I currently have defined a link to each of the characters in question, for example:

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            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=N*{$browseartistalbum}">N</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=O*{$browseartistalbum}">O</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=Ó*{$browseartistalbum}">Ó</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=Ö*{$browseartistalbum}">Ö</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
	    <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=Ø*{$browseartistalbum}">Ø</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=P*{$browseartistalbum}">P</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=Q*{$browseartistalbum}">Q</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=R*{$browseartistalbum}">R</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=S*{$browseartistalbum}">S</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=Š*{$browseartistalbum}">Š</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=T*{$browseartistalbum}">T</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            

I would prefer to have the artists display under the corresponding English alphabet character of which the non-English letter is a variation. I know I could just change the sortby on each artist to use the English character, but I'd rather use a solution to massage the character in XML.

I've tried inserting a character map as follows with no success:

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  <xsl:character-map name="map">
    <xsl:output-character character="Ä" string="A"/>
    <xsl:output-character character="Ó" string="O"/>
    <xsl:output-character character="Ö" string="O"/>
    <xsl:output-character character="Ø" string="O"/>
    <xsl:output-character character="Š" string="S"/>
    <xsl:output-character character="Ż" string="Z"/>
  </xsl:character-map>
  <xsl:output indent="yes" use-character-maps="map"/>
  

Anyone have any suggestions? Can I somehow use some syntax in the standard list to pass a set of letters instead of the single one?

Thanks for looking.

[LotsOCds]

I think the best way is to use a Logical OR (@!) in the URL query.

Here's an example:

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 <A HREF="BandList.xsl?SortBy=O*@!SortBy=Ó*@!SortBy=Ö*@!SortBy=Ø*{$browseartistalbum}">O</A><xsl:text> </xsl:text>

Using this all band entries beginning with O, Ó, Ö, or Ø will be returned when the O is clicked.

[felldownawell]

As always, Dave, you are a genius. Works beautifully. Thanks so much.