[Koha-bugs] [Bug 28884] New: ElasticSearch: Question mark in title search returns no results

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28884

            Bug ID: 28884
           Summary: ElasticSearch: Question mark in title search returns
                    no results
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: 20.11
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Searching - Elasticsearch
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: jyorio at equinoxinitiative.org

When searching for a title with a question mark, Who's Afraid of  Virginia
Woolf? for example, Koha returns no results with ElasticSearch.

Removing the question mark or escaping it retrieves results, as does enclosing
the entire title with the question mark in quotes.

Since ? is a wildcard for ElasticSearch, this may be expected behavior (I'm not
sure that it is or isn't), but explaining to patrons that they need to change
their search behavior can be a big ask for libraries.

Not sure what the best option is. Perhaps a system preference to automatically
escape ? and not treat it as a wildcard for those libraries who would prefer
that?

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