Searching titles and artists with accents and diacritics doesn't work
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mixxx |
Fix Committed
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Medium
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Daniel Schürmann |
Bug Description
Mixxx version: 2.3.3
OS version: MacOS 12.4
I have a lot of files with accents and diacritics (Spanish songs) and this causes some problems when searching them (I don't have the same characters in my keyboard). What's really strange is that I can't even find a track copying and pasting the exact title it has in the mp3 tags.
A possible solution: each searchable field (title, artist, genre...) could be duplicated in the database with an ASCII only version, for example:
title: Buscándote
title_ascii: buscandote
The original field is used for display while the ASCII one is used for search.
To convert a string to its ASCII can be done normalizing the unicode characters to NFD (https:/
Example in Java: https:/
Changed in mixxx: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
milestone: | none → 2.3.4 |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
I can't reproduce on Linux with Mixxx 2.3.4
I tried both with the file name and title tag and could find it both with "Buscándote" and "Buscandote".
So this is a macOS issue?