# Accent characters missing in search excerpts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388>\
**Category:** Product 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")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 5

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@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")

</div>

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 <danekhollas@gmail.com>
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

```

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accent-characters-missing-in-search-excerpts/242388)._