I found this old thread, which has now been closed, related to an issue we noticed on our site: Discourse should ignore if a character is accented when doing a search - Feature In Te Reo Māori in New Zealand, there are two versions of each vowel – with and without a macron. The macron can change th…

I’m also in Aotearoa NZ; I hadn’t encountered this problem yet, but I can certainly reproduce it on our site : Using ‘maori’ (without macron) <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/0/e/70e4dda80dd9a81b987ac0b64e74d827948810f1.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/g6HOOauYIspVx5RvGe37zdyFOvL.png?dl=1" title="The image displays a web browser with search results and articles from the Maori website, focusing on topics including data guardianship, gamified learning of Te Reo in health, teleshealth equity, AI adoption, and contributions by Maori community movements. (Captioned by AI)">[The image displays a web browser with search results and articles from the Maori website, focusing on topics including data guardianship, gamified learning …

Is this one where manually triggering the jobs::ReindexSearch job from your /sidekiq/scheduler page will help speed this up?

If you have access to your YourSite/sidekiq/scheduler page you can manually trigger some of the background jobs to reduce the natural wait time. I like to use the browser ‘find in page’ to help find the one I’m looking for rather than pick from the list. Whichever way you locate the job you’re loo…

Ok, that seemed pretty simple. I suspect that it is only the light version though as it only took 162 milliseconds! I can imagine that a full re-index would take some serious grunt for a while. Certainly, it didn’t seem to change anything. I’ll run the rake task late tonight at a safe time and let…

Ah, I thought it might be too optimistic. :slight_smile: The site settings that need a rake task running after enabling/disabling often have a hint in the setting description (eg. Add rel nofollow to user content or spoiler enabled). If you do need the rake task for this one then adding that to the …

@marvi given you are hosted with us we can ensure someone reindexes your site, do you mind shooting an email to team@dscourse.org ?

Macrons and search results in NZ

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Macrons and search results in NZ

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