Speical Symbols

[HuangYiming0608]

In my website(In Chinese), I use some special symbols, such as C++. If my search key word is C++, there is nothing! But If I use C, I can find this page.`

Is it because of special symbols?

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I use wrapper library astro-pagefind. The number of issue is #85

[bglw]

Hey @HuangYiming0608 👋

Currently Pagefind doesn't index or search special characters — but you should still be seeing a result. When indexing, C++ will be normalized to c. When searching, the intention is that searching for C++ should actually search for c, so the results should still line up.

It's possible that the search reformatting isn't being applied when searching in some languages, I'll look into that.

(It's also worth considering supporting more symbol searches in Pagefind in the future, but that needs more thought)

[HuangYiming0608]

Hey @HuangYiming0608 👋

Currently Pagefind doesn't index or search special characters — but you should still be seeing a result. When indexing, C++ will be normalized to c. When searching, the intention is that searching for C++ should actually search for c, so the results should still line up.

It's possible that the search reformatting isn't being applied when searching in some languages, I'll look into that.

(It's also worth considering supporting more symbol searches in Pagefind in the future, but that needs more thought)

So if all the characters of the key word are sperical charaters, such as ~, will it no result?

[bglw]

In the current implementation, correct. Searching for a ~ alone wouldn't return results.