'?' is a special character in URLs and the web generally. The behavior you describe doesn't surprise me in the least.
Searches involving the question mark could probably be made to work, but unless it's deeply important to you in an on-going sense, it's unlikely to be worth the effort. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:11 AM, George Kozak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello: > > We are running DSpace 5.5, XMLUI with modified Mirage 2 theme. > A user complained to me that an item couldn't be found if one did a search > with a question mark ("?"). > For instance, in our repository (https://ecommons.cornell.edu), we have > an item entitled: > "*What’s all the buzz about mosquitoes?"* > If a person searches for "*What’s all the buzz about mosquitoes",* the > item is found. > If a person searches for "*What’s all the buzz about mosquitoes?", *the > item is not found. > > Is this the way search should work or is this a bug of some kind? > > -- > *************************** > George Kozak > Digital Library Specialist > Cornell University Library - IT > 218 Olin Library > Cornell University > Ithaca, NY 14853 > 607-255-8924 > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Technical Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
