So, we are having the letter problem since a longer time know. A search of Mühlen Kölsch e.g. brings no result ( https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mhlen-klsch/7778/ ) and I have to edit every upload from my mobile and replace question marks with the actual letter. |
Your link brought up the right result. Using website on my mobile. |
Sure, link works. but search for "Mühlen Kölsch" or just "Kölsch", that will bring up around 20 results while there are way more than 100 beers on RB with Kölsch in it |
When searching for foreignish words - drop the dots: |
Originally posted by FatPhil Sure, dropping the points works, but thats not a solution. How hard can it be to fixed this problem (which only exists since a few weeks [meh, probably months])? It just sucks. |
Originally posted by Koelschtrinker Why insist on using the umlauts? |
Originally posted by Koelschtrinker "COMPUTER! ENHANCE!" if things were only this easy. 😅 |
Obviously I have some work to do. Just got done with finishing up Swedish places... will get to this soon. |
OK. done. And beer search is improved. To explain a bit... we have a whole bunch of data and a long history about how this data was encoded and stored in the database. Some are stored as HTML entities, some as alternately translated Unicode, some as native UTF-8. Microsoft has no silver bullet and developers have implemented dozens of different methods for dealing with character issues. On top of this, Microsoft has separate methods and data types for storing unicode versus non-unicode. After we have some stability on this front, which we hope to soon, we can begin the long (in computer scale time) process of translation. |
Microsoft... that explains it. Notoriously inconsistent with character encoding. |
Oh and btw it's hard to report issues like this through the feedback page because I can see from the email confirmation that the charset is not encoded properly, even standard quote marks become gibberish. Line breaks are also removed making readability difficult for long reports. |
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