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Hi all,

I’ve built a bilingual site - English and Chinese. I’ve also got the search module working - just with a single search field rather than the advanced one.

However, though it does work for the English content on the site, it doesn’t match up the Chinese content.

I’ve got the charset as UTF-8 but is it the case that the search module won’t work for Chinese? Or is there something else I need to do?

Many thanks,

Mark

Hi, Mark.

What is in your simple search? Are you only searching for the title, or all content?

Hi Sue,

Searching “everywhere”!

What version and build of EE are you using? The site as such is working fine?

I’m running v2.1.3 - Build:  20101220. The site is working well - you can see it at the following address and try out the search in Chinese too :

http://www.ipcn.co.uk/en/news

Thanks,

Mark

I searched for the word William in the english version, and it returned what I’d expect it to, but can you create an entry with mixed English and Chinese words, and search for either/or?

All entries have both English and Chinese words - split using different (custom) fields. i.e. for News, there’s an English Summary and a Chinese Summary, only one is set to show based on your language preference.

If this is what you mean - I just tried putting Chinese characters into the English summary for a sample news item and copied and pasted a character into the search to test, but again, shows ‘no results’. Its as if the query doesn’t process Chinese?

When you say either/or, do you within an advanced search?

I meant put a Chinese word in the English text, and English text in the Chinese content - just to see what happens with it.

Hi Sue,

Yep, just tried that and it does show up on the site as an entry, but not as a search result…

Hi, Mark. I tried the following on a local install (see enclosed image) and EE found it just fine.

So in theory, the problem isn’t with the Chinese characters per se..

Can you post your exact template?