# Searching Chinese terms in middle of sentence

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-chinese-terms-in-middle-of-sentence/35440>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015 年 11 月 10 日午後 11:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-chinese-terms-in-middle-of-sentence/35440 "2015-11-10T23:27:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![dleung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dleung](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dleung)\
**Post date:** [2015 年 11 月 10 日午後 11:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-chinese-terms-in-middle-of-sentence/35440/1 "2015-11-10T23:27:41Z")

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When search using for Chinese keywords, any terms in the middle of the sentence do not turn up in search results. Searching on the first few words of a sentence however works.

Here’s a topic:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/f/1f0400fa68e288a9f88cc2c19e3fbc773d17129c.png)

Searching for terms in middle of sentence doesn’t work:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/2/b25be8d4963c643a2c75e174ac1e97ed93cc0944.png)

Including the first few words in the beginning of the sentence works:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/c/6cf3dfa5598d104499153d02c9ef1c7b9740ceb0.png)

This phenomenon is mentioned in the first half of this thread:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-search-with-chinese-keywords/4500/10](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-search-with-chinese-keywords/4500/10)

It suggests that we need to turn on site wide Chinese locale in order to enable such search. Is this still the case?  
We’re currently on En locale but need to support multiple languages.

Thanks.

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