Author: wikipedia
Description:
I went to the page about the schwa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa) and copied a
schwa (ə) and then copied the schwa into the search and searched for it. The search
indicated that I had searched for "ə" and not a schwa at all, and also didn't find
the page about the schwa.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search
The problem is that the search engine has no support for HTML entities. The search engine
should probably convert from the native encoding to UTF-8, and also normalize all entities to
UTF-8 also for indexing and searching purposes.
gangleri wrote:
related to character encoding see also
bug 2896: Search doesn't find (accent problem? indexing problem?)
Wiki.Melancholie wrote:
Searching for special characters like "ə" does work now!
Thus, I close this bug.
gangleri wrote:
Hallo!
Please see bug 4601 comment 2
Bug 4601: Exact search for titles using php meta / escape characters
Are these bug dependent? (I can not see the character specified above with
this PC because of missing fonts.)
Are "OS" and "Hardware" set properly?
best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]