https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24414
Summary: Special character "å" in the search menu
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Vector Skin
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
In the new search menu, the letter "å" is interpreted as its base letter "a".
This means that when I start typing a word including the letter "å", it is
interpreted as though I had written an "a".
Example: I want to look for the Swedish town "Åmål", and I start typing "Åm":
The first hits I get are words beggining with "Am", such as "America",
"Amsterdam", "American revolutionary war". In Norwegian, Swedish and Danish,
"å" is considered to be a separate letter, and not another version of the
letter "a", it therefore doesn't make sense to treat it as an "a". This problem
does not occur for the Dano-Norwegian letters "ø" and "æ" (they are not
confused with any other letters), but it does occur for the Swedish "ö" and "ä"
(which are interpreted as "o" and "a", respectively).
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