Search text with special characters in kirby editor paragraph

Kirby 3 Issues 🐛
1

I’m having trouble searching keywords with special characters in content files. I’m using the kirby editor and the text is stored in json format.

ä becomes \u00e4 and so on …

The problem is when I use the kirby function search with the keyword “qualität” for example, I’m getting no results.

Thanks for your help.

2

Hmm, indeed. I’ld create an issue for it: https://github.com/getkirby/editor/issues

3

I got a hacky solution here, this works for the moment:

$query = get('q');
$encoded_query = trim(json_encode($query), '"');
$results = $site->search($encoded_query, 'title|text');

Any other suggestions?

4

Don’t know if will solve your issue: https://github.com/distantnative/search-for-kirby

Note: Needs a modified Kirby version before the release of 3.4

5

I think your hack will work for all content that lives in editor fields, but not for content outside it (e.g. in regular textarea or text fields).