https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21002
Summary: Wrong processing of the apostrophe by the search engine
in Ukrainian
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.16
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: Search
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
In Ukrainian language the apostrophe usually appears in the middle of the word
to mark the specific pronunciation of certain sounds. The problem is that the
apostrophe symbol («’», U+2019) is probably threated by the search engine
as a quotation mark, thus treating the word which it contains as two separate
words. For example, the word «xxxxx’yyyyyy», will be recognized as two
words xxxxx and yyyyyy. This makes such words impossible to find, and makes
totally impossible to give the articles the names with the apostrophe.
This bug was never reported before, because on the keyboard the are some other
symbols, looking as and used instead of the apostrophe: «‘», «'», «`»,
but according to Ukrainian typographic standard, the only right symbol is —
«’», U+2019.
This bug doesn’t show up, if instead of the U+2019 symbol the ' mark is used,
which is the temporary solution, widely used in Ukrainian wikipedia for the
moment. But to keep Ukrainian wikipedia in line with the rules of the language,
the U+2019 apostrophe should be processed correctly as well.
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