# Apostrophes cause strange search behavior

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/apostrophes-cause-strange-search-behavior/28441
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** search
**Created:** [Mai 7, 2015, 12:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apostrophes-cause-strange-search-behavior/28441 "2015-05-07T12:43:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![yamikuronue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yamikuronue/32/114514_2.png) [@yamikuronue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yamikuronue)
#### Post date: [Mai 7, 2015, 12:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apostrophes-cause-strange-search-behavior/28441/1 "2015-05-07T12:43:31Z")

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I’m trying to find a thread called “You know you’ve been spending too much time on TDWTF when”.

For some reason, when I enter “you’ve” as a search term, it screws up the results:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/c/dcb8fda0c27daf1a29927710f9471d9b0cb4e4ea.png)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/4/0478766e7443fffc06bae2e41742d20f6589a837.png)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/e/5ea1773c97d8779bf1b89e501917625be635db3e.png)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/6/2695ba8b4d7cf849b11131d9f7014ac35a11bcdd.png)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/f/6f66ccd0ebc5a2a534df39b468da265835775e38.png)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/0/409c614ae23cb3fd36804ac9c5671a0b59c4ec49.png)

Am I doing something wrong here?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [Mai 7, 2015, 12:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apostrophes-cause-strange-search-behavior/28441/2 "2015-05-07T12:46:04Z")

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Pretty sure @zogstrip fixed this yesterday, it sneaked up in our logs

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/4/14659418a6f46fc7507945de9279a810117dc0dc.png)

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### Author: ![yamikuronue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yamikuronue/32/114514_2.png) [@yamikuronue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yamikuronue)
#### Post date: [Mai 7, 2015, 12:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apostrophes-cause-strange-search-behavior/28441/3 "2015-05-07T12:46:36Z")

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Awesome, I’ll wait for an update then. Thanks!

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [Mai 7, 2015, 12:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apostrophes-cause-strange-search-behavior/28441/4 "2015-05-07T12:46:46Z")

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