Non english letters

Originally posted by LazyPyro
Microsoft... that explains it. Notoriously inconsistent with character encoding.

Romanian is another charset that needs fixing. Currently some beers are impossible to find unless you know the brewery name (not always obvious for macros). For example Timișoreana. Searching either Timișoreana with the correct s or Timisoreana... neither return any results at all. The only way to get to them is a Google search, or by going to the Ursus brewery page first assuming users know it's brewed there.

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by LazyPyro
Microsoft... that explains it. Notoriously inconsistent with character encoding.

Romanian is another charset that needs fixing. Currently some beers are impossible to find unless you know the brewery name (not always obvious for macros). For example Timișoreana. Searching either Timișoreana with the correct s or Timisoreana... neither return any results at all. The only way to get to them is a Google search, or by going to the Ursus brewery page first assuming users know it's brewed there.

Found it in a snap on BA. Just saying.
Ratebeer can do it too !

Originally posted by LazyPyro
Microsoft... that explains it. Notoriously inconsistent with character encoding.

Romanian is another charset that needs fixing. Currently some beers are impossible to find unless you know the brewery name (not always obvious for macros). For example Timișoreana. Searching either Timișoreana with the correct s or Timisoreana... neither return any results at all. The only way to get to them is a Google search, or by going to the Ursus brewery page first assuming users know it's brewed there.

Originally posted by joet

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by LazyPyro
Microsoft... that explains it. Notoriously inconsistent with character encoding.

Romanian is another charset that needs fixing. Currently some beers are impossible to find unless you know the brewery name (not always obvious for macros). For example Timișoreana. Searching either Timișoreana with the correct s or Timisoreana... neither return any results at all. The only way to get to them is a Google search, or by going to the Ursus brewery page first assuming users know it's brewed there.

Found it in a snap on BA. Just saying.
Ratebeer can do it too !

And we have

https://www.ratebeer.com/findbeer.asp?beername=timisoreana
https://www.ratebeer.com/findbeer.asp?beername=Timișoreana

But again now that we have this fixed, we'll be needed to save all beers and brewers to make this count.

Thanks for the heads up on the Romanian character. I will move through these later to ensure we have them all.

Originally posted by joet

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by LazyPyro
Microsoft... that explains it. Notoriously inconsistent with character encoding.

Romanian is another charset that needs fixing. Currently some beers are impossible to find unless you know the brewery name (not always obvious for macros). For example Timișoreana. Searching either Timișoreana with the correct s or Timisoreana... neither return any results at all. The only way to get to them is a Google search, or by going to the Ursus brewery page first assuming users know it's brewed there.

Found it in a snap on BA. Just saying.
Ratebeer can do it too !

And we have

https://www.ratebeer.com/findbeer.asp?beername=timisoreana
https://www.ratebeer.com/findbeer.asp?beername=Timișoreana

But again now that we have this fixed, we'll be needed to save all beers and brewers to make this count.

Thanks for the heads up on the Romanian character. I will move through these later to ensure we have them all.

Originally posted by LazyPyro

Originally posted by joet

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by LazyPyro
Microsoft... that explains it. Notoriously inconsistent with character encoding.

Romanian is another charset that needs fixing. Currently some beers are impossible to find unless you know the brewery name (not always obvious for macros). For example Timișoreana. Searching either Timișoreana with the correct s or Timisoreana... neither return any results at all. The only way to get to them is a Google search, or by going to the Ursus brewery page first assuming users know it's brewed there.

Found it in a snap on BA. Just saying.
Ratebeer can do it too !

And we have

https://www.ratebeer.com/findbeer.asp?beername=timisoreana
https://www.ratebeer.com/findbeer.asp?beername=Timișoreana

But again now that we have this fixed, we'll be needed to save all beers and brewers to make this count.

Thanks for the heads up on the Romanian character. I will move through these later to ensure we have them all.

Excellent! And yes you need to do it for the letter t-comma as well: ț

For example this brewery is difficult to find without a partial search term as you point out https://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/ber259ria-vlad-538epe537/28164/

This beer was redundantly named to get around the problem: https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ha539egana-hategana/84895/

The city of Constanța has dropped the ț for a normal t https://www.ratebeer.com/places/city/constanta/0/167/

I suspect there's others too I'll test more later.

Strangely, the other letters in the Romanian alphabet appear to be working correctly already. For example a search for Zaganu will bring up all all Zăganu beers.

So should I go through and report every beer and brewery with a ț or ș in them so an admin can re-save it? Or is this something you can do automatically? There's quite a lot...

No problem. I've found more for you in other alphabets too so I can keep posting them if it makes things quicker for you to fix. Browsing the top 50 of various European countries I copy and pasted some names of beers and searched for them with their native alphabet and also anglicized to see if the same results were returned.

Polish:
ł to l - e.g. Bałtycki and Baltycki don't return any results
ń to n - This one is odd, it's getting cut out of searches completely. For example do a search for "tlen" (correctly finds matches including ones spelled with the ń) then search for "tleń" - notice how the latter actually returns matches for "tle"? It's not taking that ń into account at all.
ę to e - Wędzony doesn't return any results but Wedzony does.
Some other letters in their alphabet seem to be working but only partially. For example the terms Śliwką and Sliwka return different results when they should probably be returning exactly the same.

Turkish:
s-cedilla and undotted-i need to be taken care of: ş to s, and ı to i
possibly c-cedilla as well if you haven't done French letters yet: ç to c, and maybe ğ to g too.
note that the s is similar looking to the Romanian one I pointed out before but is actually different.
For example a search for "turborg kis" does not find "Tuborg Kış"
"Tarcinli" does not find "Tarçınlı"

This should be scriptable, and find all the low-hanging and most egregious faults:

For each beer in database
If search for beer under its exact name doesn't find the beer
Flag that beer as needing attention, or better, automatically fix it

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by Koelschtrinker
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

Why insist on using the umlauts?

Originally posted by Marko

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by Koelschtrinker
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

Why insist on using the umlauts?

Because in them yonder countries outside of Planet Mur'ca we have all those strange and wild and complicated characters that signify different sounds than "similar" characters y'all used to, which often carry different meaning to similar words without those letters and suchlike. And we'd like to get stuff correct and not just dumbed down for someone's "convenience".

Sorry for the snark, but doing something intentionally wrong because it's easier and a lot of people won't care should never, ever be done in any line of work.