[Plugin: Relevanssi] utf-8 support

All you people with UTF-8 problems, check out the new 1.5 version with improved UTF-8 support, thanks to smurkas here.

Hi guys,

first of all msaari, your plugin is simply ingenious! WP default search simply sucks, so Relevanssi is a must have! Thank you.

Now, onto my issue which is very similar of smurkas’ one. I am using the most recent version of Relevanssi, still I’m facing this “trimming” problem — but with only 2 characters: ‘á’ and ‘í’ (UTF: á and í) which is quite weird ’cause handling e.g. ‘?’ (ű) is just fine. And this ‘?’ is quite special Hungarian character… so I don’t get it.

I also checked the DB and all words are stored correctly BUT those ones that contains ‘á’ or ‘í’… trimmed, consequently the search result for these words are gibberish.

Any suggestion?

Thanks,
L

P.S. to complicate things even further, under the “25 most popular queries” section all the words with ‘á’ and/or ‘í’ are shown flawlessly…

Cryptic. I’d expect trouble with ?, not with perfectly usual á and í… I was able to repeat the problem with my test blog, so perhaps I can come up with a solution. I’ll have to see what I can do.

You say that utf8 problems have been fixed but I’m not satisfied with the results at all! I checked the database and and noticed that in many cases it stores only a part of the word or even only a letter from the word. Is it what it’s suppose to do? Very often if I try to search with two words it doesn’t find anything, even in case of exact match!

p.s. I use Georgian unicode.

Well, apparently there are still some problems. I must say I have no clue what’s going on… for some reason á and í just don’t work. When I look at my database through phpMyAdmin, the characters appear just fine, though the Hungarian u is a ?.

So, I’m afraid this problem exceeds my understanding. If someone else wants to give it a go, feel free.

Unfortunatelly I’m not so familiar with programming to find out the exact reason. I don’t know whether it’s something too difficult to do or plugin developers don’t pay attention to this, but it’s a common problem to every advanced search plugin.

I’d guess many US developers aren’t really aware of the problems. Since Finnish needs few additional characters, I’m aware of the issues – but my skills aren’t enough to fix them…

Hey again all.

I’ll have another go at it if you want Mikko to see if we can get this fixed. Hopefully I’ll have some time to do a run on it in a couple of days, I’ll send you an email with my progress.

I just installed this plugin and when trying to index for the first time, I received this error:

Call to undefined function: mb_internal_encoding() in /home/content/a/a/a/myuser/html/wp-content/plugins/relevanssi/relevanssi.php on line 1203

Line 1203 is this:

mb_internal_encoding(“UTF-8”);

Can anyone offer any suggestions on why this is happening? I am currently deactivating/reactivating all my plugins and testing but I doubt there will be an affect.

It would seem to me you don’t have multibyte string support enabled in your PHP. You could try commenting that line out (put // before it).

i have same problem most common words in the index show ????

how to fix it?

my language is Persian , Arabic

thank you

Does the search work in general?

I’m unfortunately unable to help here, as I can’t really test properly with Arabian or Persian text.

Hi All,

In function relevanssi_remove_punct, statement “$a = mb_ereg_replace(‘:punct:+’, ‘ ‘, $a);” is error. I change it to “$a = mb_ereg_replace(‘/:punct:+/u’, ‘ ‘, $a);”

Ex: when $str = “kh??ng”, relevanssi_remove_punct will be return “kh?? ng” instead “kh??ng”.

Thanks

Thanks, will fix this in the next version.