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

--- Comment #25 from David Cook <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Janusz Kaczmarek from comment #21)
> OK, but how about the general idea like this: a "normal" search should take
> into account only letters and digits and require from the user no special
> knowledge about the underlying technology, query grammar, expert constructs
> etc.  In this case a "copy and paste" search will always return some results
> if there are record matching the search keywords. 

We are pretty heavy-handed in terms of normalization with Zebra, and it gets us
into a bit of a situation: bug 9729 

Amusingly, on that bug report I talk about how we should look into the handling
of special characters in Elasticsearch.

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We've never really had a good comprehensive approach to searching. Having 2
search engines has just made it worse. 

I think if we cleaned up the regex escape a bit, then this patch probably is
the way to go. We often take the nuclear approach, and the ? mark is probably
not the hill I want to die on when it comes to search. 

As I bring more libraries over to Elasticsearch, I'll be scrutinizing Koha's
query building/massaging more. I've been thinking a bit how it could be
interesting to be more pluggable/modular with this, so that it's easier to
fine-tune searching for individual libraries, but that's a future problem...

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