Problem with search function

[Voyageur]

Hello,

I use IndexU in french language and sometimes it's hard !

The problem : (for example) the keyword "seminaire" and "séminaire" don't return the same results.

This issue was solved in 1.2 version and the bug is coming back in 1.3 version !

Anyway to fix the bug ?

Thanks

[Bruceper]

"seminaire" and "séminaire" are two different words because of the accent on the e.

I don't recall there being a "fix" for this in 1.2 but I'll believe you. I'll get someone to look at the issue.

[xmith]

This is something English speakers are not able to grasp.
Do a google for "seminaire" and you will find "séminaire" in the results. Do the opposite. Same result. For a number of reasons I won't discuss here, this is the ideal solution. It is now, more or less, the standard behaviour for any application using search.

That's why Voyager expects Indexu to return the same results. Quite reasonable request. I myself customized a v5.4 site to make tags working properly.

[Bruceper]

I am able to grasp it, but they are different words. Just like http://blah.com and blah! are not the same.

You can call it semantics, but when dealing with a database the letter é is not the same as e. They are two totally different characters. It is the human who perceives these characters as the same.

Lets take a look at how a computer sees those two letters in ASCII
é = é
e = e

And now in hex
é = E9
e = 65

The computer recognizes these characters are different, so searcing for e will not match é. What we need to do is build a mechanism that says if searching for "e" then include "é".

In your example for a search engine, they have done exactly the same as I stated above. And as I also stated above, I would get someone to look into it.

[xmith]

It would be nice to have this included in a future version.

More happy international customers.

There are 3 areas that can benefit from this capability:
a) SEO URL titles (I think this is already done)
b) search function
c) tags