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Accents are NOT disregarded in search anymore
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On 2010[1], [[User:LA2]] added a paragraph to
[[Help:Searching#Search engine features]]
which among other things says that "accents are disregarded in search". Nonetheless, although

goes directly to [[voy:pt:África]]

goes to a page with search results instead of the article

  • Was this feature broken in some recent MediaWiki update? (add "code-update-regression" keyword)
  • Did it ever work? (mark as INVALID)
  • Is this a configuration issue on ptwikivoyage?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching?diff=395910485

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:32 AM
• bzimport added projects: Wikimedia-lucene-search-2, I18n.
• bzimport set Reference to bz44238.
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He7d3r created this task.Jan 22 2013, 12:33 PM
He7d3r added a comment.Jan 22 2013, 12:34 PM

(In reply to comment #0)

  • Did it ever work? (mark as INVALID)

...or "enhancement"

Platonides added a comment.Mar 12 2013, 8:39 PM

I guess it never worked: https://af.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%C3%81frika&title=Spesiaal%3ASoek

Note how most have a redirect Africa → África, which is what sends ptwiki to África. It could also come from eg. Extension:TitleKey, but its code doesn't remove accents,

Nemo_bis added a comment.Oct 22 2013, 11:02 PM

(In reply to comment #2)

I guess it never worked:
https://af.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%C3%81frika&title=Spesiaal%3ASoek

None of the examples, however, helps understanding: maybe accent folding was enabled only for English; those are all non-English wikis.
See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-October/000440.html for current (or near future) status in CirrusSearch; I think this can be closed.

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