Search Function

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Griffin86
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Search Function

Post by Griffin86 »

It would be nice if the search function were able to recognize all characters, even if they are missing accent marks and such. For example, searching for "Missa L'homme arme" should render the same results as "Missa L'homme armé." Instead, the website comes back as saying there were no search results found.
carlos
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Re: Search Function

Post by carlos »

Yes, that would be nice indeed! Unfortunately it's a limitation of the wiki platform, but there are a few workarounds.
One we've been gradually implementing is to create "redirects" with no diacritics in the title, that point to the work with accents. These redirects can then be located via the search function, as you wished.
Another option is to use the Multi-Category Search and add a keyword to the search ("homme", for instance).
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