https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47761
--- Comment #6 from Emil Jerabek <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > The failure isn't caused by short strings alone, since searching for > character > glyphs such as 'é' works. > To summarize that discussion on enwiki VPT, searching for the character '�' > also produces this red error message, as does ':', '@', '$' '!', '-', '+', > etc. > (All tested on meta-wiki.) Let me venture a guess based on the observed behaviour (I don't actually know anything about the inner working of the search engine). It seems to me that the search engine ignores non-letter characters, presumably deleting them from the search string. It may be that the error is triggered when this deletion results in the empty string: this would explain why 'é' works (it is not deleted, being a letter), '$' doesn't work (it is deleted), and 'abc $' works (the $ is deleted, but there is something left). Also, namespace prefixes are presumably handled in a different way and removed from the actual search string, hence 'Talk:' doesn't work (the resulting string is empty) while 'Talk: zyx' works (the string is nonempty), and 'Foo:' also works (it is not recognized as a prefix, and therefore left in the string). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
