does not support substring search

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

The following query
http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Pari%

doesn't return Paris

The consequence is that main cities not found by typing the first letters. It's happening in Ubiquity in the timezone selection screen or on the phone in the "Add City" list of the clock.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

I understand this is highly important, as Quantal is changing to french as the default locale.
As a workaround for now, you can type "Paris" to get the French capital.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1045224

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This isn't specific to Paris. It seems http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com does not support substrings at all, I tried "Londo", "Berli", "Augsb", etc. But it does seem to cut on non-ASCII Unicode characters, which is even worse: E. g. http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Berl delivers "Berlīne".