Search Box Issue with 4th Character “Y”
@adopilot reported a search box issue where results disappear when the 4th character typed is “Y”. However, copying and pasting the full string shows correct results.
@adopilot later discovered that the issue is not limited to the letter “Y”, but rather a problem with word matching. For example, typing “silentl” does not match “silently”.
@sam suggested that the issue lies with the snowball stemmer used in English, which has edge cases. They recommended using a simple or language-specific stemmer instead, which would require modifying the installation.
@sam later claimed to have fixed the issue and asked users to try the latest update.
I do not know is this BUG or regional settings misunderstandings but in serach box when user type word letter by letter if 4TH letter is “Y” serach box shows blank
If I copy and paste full string at once search box will show correct rezults.
Here is few pictures
Forgive me if I’m boring but looks like that this is not just case with Y letter.
Perhaps Discourse trying to search for words
Here is also sample whit word
silent will match silently
but when user just types silentl Discource will not match silently.
I don’t think this is anything to do with y the issue here is that snowball stemmer is used in English. It has edge cases
I have been considering using ispell instead. Since you are a non-English install its very likely the English stemmer is a bad choice and you should just go with simple or a language specific stemmet.
It will require mucking with the install a bit.
Long term I am thinking of doing all the stemming and stopword in our ruby process to avoid all the magic done in pg.
I am pretty sure I fixed this, try latest, if not fixed flag to reopen.