# Tag search in tags dropdown box does not work for non-English characters

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [03.Декабрь.2016 01:40:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731 "2016-12-03T01:40:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Post date:** [03.Декабрь.2016 01:40:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731/1 "2016-12-03T01:40:45Z")

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How to reproduce

1 - Have a few tags written in non-English language. In my example, Russian.

2 - create a new topic and note how there is a tag named `тема-в-разработке`

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/8/b8634b8b995282627c5f2c46a94c672a12b980f4.jpg)

3 - type part of the tag name, and it disappears from the dropdownbox:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/6/66bde4408760093b939749266ec54286407fba4f.png)

Looks like a UX bug.

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**Author:** ![acinonyxjubatus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@acinonyxjubatus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/acinonyxjubatus)\
**Post date:** [02.Март.2017 20:58:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731/2 "2017-03-02T20:58:20Z")

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Did you find solution?  
I am facing same problem. Described in [this topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multi-laguage-tags-search/58189)

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**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Post date:** [02.Март.2017 21:18:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731/3 "2017-03-02T21:18:53Z")

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Nope it still does not work.

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**Author:** ![Stranik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stranik/32/85638_2.png) [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\
**Post date:** [24.Май.2017 13:26:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731/4 "2017-05-24T13:26:44Z")

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Search for tags on Russian characters does not work ( Probably this bug is for non-latin languages?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/e/3e71c19cd52dbcdac8a049e60f933fa727826dd9.jpg)

**a-zA-Z0-9**?

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/lib/search.rb#L448>

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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:** [30.Август.2018 05:56:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731/5 "2018-08-30T05:56:53Z")

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Is this still an issue? I think @maja fixed something similar this week.

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**Author:** ![Stranik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stranik/32/85638_2.png) [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\
**Post date:** [30.Август.2018 06:04:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731/6 "2018-08-30T06:04:49Z")

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Everything works for me. Thank You.  
But I don’t know what @meglio

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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:** [01.Сентябрь.2018 08:00:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-search-in-tags-dropdown-box-does-not-work-for-non-english-characters/53731/7 "2018-09-01T08:00:11Z")

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