Last modified: 2013-10-22 23:02:43 UTC
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 * https://pt.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%C3%81FRICA&uselang=en goes directly to [[voy:pt:África]] * https://pt.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=AFRICA&uselang=en 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
(In reply to comment #0) > * Did it ever work? (mark as INVALID) ...or "enhancement"
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,
(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.
