[tbones]

Here is my tags.php for german characters with some search optimization (rev 1200, SourceForge.net Repository - [pligg] Revision 1200 )

I forgot to mention: The result will be uncapitalized and transcribed words, e.g. Lößnitz --> loessnitz

[Andtony]

Thanks again.
Sorry, nothing changed.
I replaced the old libs/tags.php with your tags.php but everything is still the same.
I made a few test submissions even with lößnitz but no luck. In tag cloud ö is still ö and
ß is still ß. And when I clik the tag search doesnt give me any results and in the
browser's URL-field the tag is spelled l%C3%B6%C3%9Fnitz.

[tbones]

I have switched my whole installation to ISO-8859-1 and I use URL method 1 without make friendly. If you can live with that settings give them a try.

[Andtony]

Ok, thanks that did it.
Need to think if I want to go through this change or just have some broken tags.

[tbones]

Could be that it works just with a switch to URL 1, haven´t tested it :-)

[Andtony]

I don't know about the URL-method, but it seems that this tag.php-fix works only with ISO-8859-1 not with UTF-8.
Anyway I swithced back to UTF-8 because I think having tags with ae, ue, oe etc. is too complicated.

I noticed that when clikcin tag lößnitz I get no results but if I change the Url from
search.php?search=l%C3%B6%C3%9Fnitz&tag=true
to
search.php?search=l%C3%B6%C3%9Fnitz
I get results.

Can you Tbones or someone explain why the latter URL works?

[tbones]

I´m not a search algorithm expert, sorry.

I waiting myself for a broader search function: http://forums.pligg.com/general-help...-comments.html

[Andtony]

Ok. Thanks.

Just wondering why search doesn't understand special characters when doing tag search but in
normal search it does find the tags.

[AnAlienHolakres3]

Originally Posted by Andtony

Ok. Thanks.

Just wondering why search doesn't understand special characters when doing tag search but in
normal search it does find the tags.

I am really interested too. Does anybody find the solution?

[Andtony]

Any updates on this matter?

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