Dear all
can someone please replicate or confirm that a search for authors who’s name contains a dash (-) does not work
Go to the search interface and search for an author of whom you are certain and whose first or last name contains a dash. The search results return empty - at least on my systems.
What application are you using?
OJS 3.4.0.5
Hi @klausru,
unfortunately, I can’t confirm fully. On all of our systems, we run Solr/Lucene, which seems to be able to deal with the case you mentioned - but the hit-highlighting for the authors is within the full text.
E.g. https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/search/index?query=&authors=Melchor+Sanchez-Martinez
Also, in the backend, if I do a search with a double name in the submissions, I get results.
And, there are short and long dashes in different variants, see https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Pd
It may be that OJS is not filtering every one of these upon indexing and searching.
Thanks @mpbraendle .
It works now. Characters were all fine. I’ve rebuilt the search index in the meantime and did a lot of searches. Interestingly, the search finds more and more results.
The site is still on a dev space so there’s no traffic and none else searching.