Find accented forms when searching (e.g. Carlos Perelló Marín with "perello")
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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In contrast, searching Google for "carlos perello" returns Carlos Perelló Marín's home page as the first result, with "Carlos Perelló" being highlighted as the matching text on the results page, and "perello" occurring nowhere in the text.
When searching for people Launchpad should, like Google, return results regardless of accented letters (since people are likely to enter them incorrectly or not at all). This probably means having a table of which letters are variants of each ASCII character (e.g. o = {OoÒÓÔÕÖØòóôõöø
Changed in launchpad: | |
status: | New → Accepted |
Changed in launchpad-foundations: | |
assignee: | Stuart Bishop (stub) → nobody |
importance: | Medium → Low |
I think we might have an easier way out just smashing the fti indexes to contain only non-accented versions of the characters, and then converting the query strings provided to the fti helper. I'm guessing, though, and Stuart as usually will have a better idea.