Last modified: 2014-11-15 12:18:34 UTC
in hebrew, double quotes is often used to denote acronyms. e.g., [[he:Category:כדורגלני בית"ר ירושלים]]. afaicr, the "old" search allowed for this by interpreting double-double-quotes ("") as "escaped" double quotes, so you would search for incategory:"כדורגלני בית""ר ירושלים" cirrus search does not allow this. i may be mistaken WRT old search (is there a way to test old search on hewiki?), but i know it *is* broken with cirrus. peace.
You can test the old search by adding &srbackend=LuceneSearch to the url. It seems to blow up with an http error at the moment though. Sad:( Anyway, you are right that there is no way to search with that quote in there in Cirrus. I'll fix it now but it'll take until next Thursday (really late GMT) for it to be deployed. In other places in Cirrus you can escape it by placing a " before it so that is what I will implement. Let me know if that works for you.
Change 161986 had a related patch set uploaded by Manybubbles: Support escaped quotes in filters https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/161986
sorry for not being clear - we need the same logic for intitle: (quotes can be part of an article name, just as they appear in cat names) as far as i could understand the patch, it should solve this also, but the description (aka "commit message") talks specifically about incategory, so i wanted to make sure... i think the same "escape mechanism" already works for the search string itself, no? peace.
It should work with all the filters like intitle, incategory, and linksto. I've updated the commit message to be more clear.
Change 161986 merged by jenkins-bot: Support escaped quotes in filters https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/161986
All patches mentioned in this report were merged or abandoned - is there more work left to do here (if yes: please reset the bug report status to NEW or ASSIGNED), or can you close this ticket as RESOLVED FIXED?
