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I'm from Estonia and I have one search problem. In Estonian we have letters ü, ä, õ, ö and we use them a lot.
When these letters are in small caps (öäüõ), everything works just fine. But if letter or letters are in CAPS (ÜÖÄÕ), search can not find a thing if you enter search word in small caps.

I put clean and new version 2.7 fix 1 in http://www.eestirukkiselts.ee/aju/
In front page there is a word "RÜÜTEL". If you enter search word in small caps (rüütel), nothing can be found.

I tried to add html_entity_decode in search.php, but its not helping.
Code:
if(@preg_match('/'.preg_quote($search,'/').'/i',$c[$hc[$i]]))
Code:
if(@preg_match('/'.preg_quote($search,'/').'/i',html_entity_decode($c[$hc[$i]])))

Could somebody please help me.

Best regards,
Priit

The i delimiter scould make the preg_match case insensitive ... can't find anything about it.

Hi, I tired to search "änderungen"
in page
http://www.cmsimple.de/cmsimple/
and nothing can be found.

If you search "Änderungen" 2 matches are found.

So, there's nothing can be done?

Best regards,
Priit

Hi Peter,

fant4fx is right. I've realized the same promblem.

If there is "gründlich" somewhere on the website, searching for "gründlich" works - searching for "grÜndlich" does not.

The i delimiter does not works on Ü ü etc...

But there is another problem. It seems that the search-function only finds stings that contains special-chars if they are on <h2>-level or lower...

Strings on <h1>-pages with special-chars will not be found.

Greets

Watch out for this one too.

I wrote a template and called glück. It worked perfectly. The client was happy. She then phoned to say that pictures weren't displaying on IE. True, but Firefox was perfect. I looked at the code offline on EasyPHP. Firefox, IE worked but Opera didn't. I uploaded the files again. Firefox, yes, IE no, Opera no.

I made another quick and dirty template to get my client back on line and called it keingluck (sic) and the damn thing worked. I got rid of the spelling mistake keinglück- and Firefox, yes, IE no, Opera no.

The fault disables the images in the template, including the ones in the menu folder, and dhtml navigation. It only occurs on some php servers.

I am just posting this for completeness-- the whole thing is now working, its a shame that the 1998 Rechtschreibungreformen didn't forsee this!

To Clem - Never never use special characters for file or folder names.

The only solution I see to the search problem is to convert both search string and page content to uppercase using http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strtoupper.php

I noticed some things:

sometimes functions like stringtoupper are used
not all PHP-string-functions do work with Unicode

if you have set your page to Unicode, you will run into some problems (I just had yesterday)

unfortunately PHP, as far as I know in PHP 4.x, concentrates on western standard codes, iso-8859-1 for example, on singlebyte-codes and not on multibyte-codes

the problem could lie there

@harteg:

Did you read my posting. There is another "searching"-problem and has nothing to do with upper/lower-case.

Words with special-chars on <h1>-pages will not be found by the seach-function. Same words on <h2-h4>-pages appear correctly at the search-results.

Greets

This is not solved with html_entity_decode ? I really don't understand how heading level influence on this.

@harteg:

Hey, actually...



...solved the problem.

Greets

Hi,

the main problem is still with no answer.

Does anybody managed to make this change and did it help?

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The only solution I see to the search problem is to convert both search string and page content to uppercase using http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strtoupper.php
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Cheers,
Priit

This has been implemented in 2.8 beta 1-2:



Please try out this code:

Hi,

this code gives me white page

Priit

A ) was missing:

if(@preg_match('/'.preg_quote(mb_strtoupper($search)),'/').'/i',mb_strtoupper(html_entity_decode($c[$hc[$i]]))))

still white page