# Accent characters missing in search excerpts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 19, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388 "2022-10-19T15:53:40Z")
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388/1 "2022-10-19T15:53:40Z")
Quick question.
I noticed some weird thing.
When I use the search a the forum I imported from phpBB 3.2 in 2018, the results excerpts don’t have accented characters, whereas the full message contains accents.
It doesn’t happen in recent messages, so I believe this weird little bug was created during the importation.
Excerpt:
Full message:
I wonder if it _really_ comes from the import script and if the bug still exists. Any idea?
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388/2 "2022-10-19T15:55:42Z")
Does rebaking the post fix the problem? There might have been a bug in 2018.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388/4 "2022-10-19T15:58:46Z")
I rebuilt the HTML through Discourse interface and it didn’t resolve the issue. It’s not a serious one though, a lot of French people even don’t care about accents, I wouldn’t mind if it couldn’t be resolved.
I’m just curious about where the problem comes from.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388/5 "2022-10-19T16:31:50Z")
I just tried this on another French forum - which was not imported - and topics from around that time do indeed not contain accented characters in their search excerpts.
Weird is that when I look at German forums, old topics _do_ contain accented characters in their search excerpts 🤔
Look at the last line of this log
```plaintext
commit cee51672c96d29174196717b734c7f7ba0754172
Author: Daniel Hollas
Date: Tue Oct 23 03:10:33 2018 +0200
FIX: Strip accents from search query
4481836 introduced accent stipping in search_indexer,
but we need to strip it from the query itself as well
TODO in search with diacritics:
- Still need to fix excerpts on search page
```
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388/6 "2022-10-19T17:27:47Z")
Okay, so if the problem is no more, then this case can be closed (correct me if I’m wrong). Old excerpts with missing accents aren’t a big deal. 🙂
Thanks for the explanation @RGJ!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388/7 "2022-11-18T17:28:33Z")
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