Thanks, Stuart.  I will respond back to the user.
George Kozak
Cornell University

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote:

> '?' 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
>
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> 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?
>>
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