Last modified: 2013-03-26 11:24:20 UTC
Try to search for Varian's War - Ein vergessener Held or "Varian's War - Ein vergessener Held" on dewiki. Nothing found even though the title http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian%E2%80%99s_War_%E2%80%93_Ein_vergessener_Held exists. Funny side effect: The search returns Did you mean: Varian's War – - Ein vergessener Held Clicking on that link return: Ähnlicher Begriff: Varian's War – – - Ein vergessener Held and so on ;-)
– is not the same as -, but something fancy is (not?) going on here.
extensions should be fixed, but they shouldn't block deployment
Note, when I search for Varian’s War – Ein vergessener Held (with an em-dash) everything works fine, so I think this has to do with minus having special meaning to the search engine to mean don't search for the next term (Combined with the search suggestion thingy giving a stupid suggestion)
I could not reproduce this, both Raimond Spekking and Bawolff's queries seem to work right now.
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