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How can I bypass automatic string-tag conversion? [duplicate]
On Politics, I wanted to make a search for questions related to the conflict in Ukraine.
There are many questions on the topic which don't have the tag [ukraine] attached to them, but on searching for ...
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Not all apples and tags are allowed to translate
There is an exclude section on the bottom of the search page. That section contains two untranslatable words: "apples" and "tag". At the same time these words are translated on the ...
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How does Stack Exchange search for non English words work (or Korean specifically if that matters)?
NOTE: it seems Meta Stack Exchange blocks posts with Korean characters so I have reformulated this question using only English. You can view the actual question on Korean language meta here.
Let's ...
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Search is too accent-sensitive
A search for que does not show results for qué. I think this makes the site less usable--especially for Spanish beginners.
Can the search engine be modified to not be "accent-sensitive"? (Is that a ...
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Something is wrong with the search function when dealing with Devanagari letters
I wanted to locate this answer of mine and I remember that I have cited a Sanskrit verse "द्वा सुपर्णा...." (see the first quote in the answer) and hence I entered that string in search bar ...
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The title "URL" in Advanced Search Tips should not be uppercased for localized sites
In the Advanced Search Tips table the title "URL" is uppercased via css style:
HTML sourse looks like this:
<th scope="row" class="tt-uppercase">url</th>
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Could we please use ElasticSearch stemmers tuned for non-English language sites?
TLDR: Can’t we please use stemmers matched to site languages?
According to this post from Nick Craver and this post from Haney, our searches are using the ElasticSearch stemmers.
The problem is that ...
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Wrong string id is used in Advanced Search Tips
As far as I can see the string "Answers" from the Advanced Search Tips is used from the wrong transifex id:
According to the current translation on ruSO I see the usage of pluralizable form "...
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Is search able to find accented characters entered as HTML entities (such as François)?
There are various ways to enter accented characters, one of them is using html.
For example, I can type Gâteaux by entering Gâteaux or Gâteaux; I can type entering François by ...
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Advanced search options should be allowed to localize
When using advanced search options on localized sites, names of options should be allowed to localize:
I don't want to translate options used in search string inself, but in the result section ...
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