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Hello. We notice a seroius issue with the new search engine on the fr.wikipedia. As there are many articles the title of which contains characters such as hyphen, shout out... By using the previous search engine, when you proposed names as for example our ministers Najat Vallaud Belkacem (instead of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem) or Jean Yves Le Drian (instead of Jean-Yves Le Drian) : the answer was immediate and we obtained the direct link towards the article. Today, nothing more. There is also un other issue related to the use in a title of ’ instead of ' et vice-versa. It's urgent !

@User:NEverett (WMF), can you please take a look? Merci!

I took a look and I'm not sure the old behavior was. The full text search seems to find the people when you search with or without the dash. Do you mean that find as you type search?

Is the ’ instead of ' issue also with prefix search?

Thanks. Don't hesitate to request more information in order to understand as well as possible our trouble in France. First screenshot (not OK today, that's was OK with the previous search engine): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Yves_Le_Drian_-_Not_OK.jpg Second screenshot (that's OK if we add the hyphen) : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Yves_Le_Drian_-_OK.jpg

Thanks for the screenshot. Its a prefix search issue. I've filed it here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73560

Thanks for taking account the bug related to ’ v/s ' but what about our main trouble related to the hyphen as you can see on the two screenshots ? Thanks for your answer.

This bug should cover both cases. I'll start work on it this morning I believe. I don't think its going to take that long to finish but getting it deployed and the index rebuilt will take some time. The earliest this would be fixed is late late Monday CET.