[Koha-patches] [PATCH] Bug 5651: Question marks break searches w/ICU

[Jared Camins-Esakov]

When a user is doing a simple keyword search, they should not be expected to
deal with the magical behavior of question marks in Zebra. This fix escapes
question marks, and reduces the number of false positives for identifying a
"simple keyword search."
---
 C4/Search.pm |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/C4/Search.pm b/C4/Search.pm
index b8939b6..df8e946 100644
--- a/C4/Search.pm
+++ b/C4/Search.pm
@@ -1120,10 +1120,12 @@ sub buildQuery {
                 my $indexes_set;
 
 # If the user is sophisticated enough to specify an index, turn off field weighting, stemming, and stopword handling
-                if ( $operands[$i] =~ /(:|=)/ || $scan ) {
+                if ( $operands[$i] =~ /\w(:|=)/ || $scan ) {
                     $weight_fields    = 0;
                     $stemming         = 0;
                     $remove_stopwords = 0;
+                } else {
+                    $operands[$i] =~ s/\?/{?}/g; # need to escape question marks
                 }
                 my $operand = $operands[$i];
                 my $index   = $indexes[$i];
-- 
1.7.2.3