[Koha-devel] Searching apostrophes

[Paul]

At 01:32 PM 8/2/2013 +0100, Ian Bays wrote:
>Hi.
>I know that searching terms with apostrophes has been problematic in the 
>past but we are now seeing a new level of problems and I wondered if 
>anyone has seen the same symptoms and has any advice or workarounds that 
>might help.
>
>Searching  for an author such as O'Brien brings back almost the whole 
>catalogue if we have QueryAutoTruncate or QueryFuzzy or QueryStemming 
>switched on.
>With them off:
>If I search for O<space>Brien in the "simple search" box it brings back 
>all records with either O or Brien (far too many).
>If I use Advanced Search> Author and search for O Brien then it returns 
>just those with O AND Brien in an author tag (close enough in this case).
>If I use the "Library Catalog" pull-down to select "Author" and search for 
>O Brien it brings back all records with either O or Brien in an author tag 
>(too many).

Interesting... We have never had difficulties on 3.6 or 3.8 except that the 
fuzziness of the *catalogue" search, rather than *author* can be 
overwhelming (see 
<http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=au&q=o%27brian>)

I'm wondering if your apostrophes are encoded correctly for UTF-8 (hex) 0x27 ?

Best - Paul



>We also have a problem with linking bibs to authorities which in 
>combination with this issue is giving major headaches.
>
>If anyone has any pointers or knows how to get round or over this problem 
>I would love to hear from you.  More details on request...
>
>We are using Zebra dom indexing and icu chains and are using Koha 3.12 on 
>Debian.  We are not yet using QueryParser.  Sysprefs and Help > About are here:
>
>Sysprefs are:
>
>+--------------------------+-------+
>| variable                 | value |
>+--------------------------+-------+
>| IncludeSeeFromInSearches | 0     |
>| QueryAutoTruncate        | 0     |
>| QueryFuzzy               | 0     |
>| QueryStemming            | 0     |
>| QueryWeightFields        | 1     |
>| TraceCompleteSubfields   | 0     |
>| TraceSubjectSubdivisions | 0     |
>| UseICU                   | 1     |
>| UseQueryParser           | 0     |
>+--------------------------+-------+
>
>
>Koha> About:
>
>Koha version:     3.12.01.000
>OS version ('uname -a'):     Linux dclg.koha.ptfsadmin.uk0.bigv.io 
>3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>Perl interpreter:     /usr/bin/perl
>Perl version:     5.014002
>Perl @INC:     /home/koha/kohaclone
>/etc/perl
>/usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2
>/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2
>/usr/lib/perl5
>/usr/share/perl5
>/usr/lib/perl/5.14
>/usr/share/perl/5.14
>/usr/local/lib/site_perl
>.
>MySQL version:     mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.31, for debian-linux-gnu 
>(x86_64) using readline 6.2
>Apache version:     Server version: Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)
>Zebra version:     Zebra 2.0.55 (C) 1994-2013, Index Data ApS Zebra is 
>free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are 
>welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
>conditions. SHA1 ID: bd2bc9360225e695bbaba2c2d1cd6925c4eb23a5 Using ICU
>
>Many thanks folks.
>Ian
>
>--
>Ian Bays
>Director of Projects, PTFS Europe Limited
>Content Management and Library Solutions
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