# Chinese search excerpts appear broken

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-excerpts-appear-broken/169866>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** pr-welcome\
**Created:** [November 11, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-excerpts-appear-broken/169866 "2020-11-11T21:39:43Z")\
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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:** [December 6, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-excerpts-appear-broken/169866/8 "2020-12-06T20:16:35Z")

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Stop words means words that are very popular and damage search performance

“And” for example, in English, is a stop word

It is possible to fix this, will take a few months to get to this, in the mean time if you need to rush a fix there is #Marketplace

Marking as #pr-welcome

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