Yes, even in version 0.43.6, the search result disappears the moment a letter following the German Umlaut is entered.
But strangely enough, not always. “Küche” can be found normally, while “Gaszählerstand” is hidden from “Gaszäh” onwards.
I don’t think it has much to do with Umlauts but search in general.
For example I often have the word “per” in some objects. Searching for “pe” doesn’t find anything. Then also when I search for “pers” it finds the word “per” what also doesn’t make much sense.
Another example is the word “font” I have the word in one objects title and somewhere else in the content. When I search for “fon” it only finds the object that has “font” in the title, but not the other object where the word is in the content area.
Another example is the word “abhängig”. I type slowly within the search field “abhän” and it doesn’t find anything. When I reach “abhäng” the object gets found. When I continue to type and reach “abhängi” (so just one additional letter) it again doesn’t find anything.
Or the term “research”. I type in “researc” (leaving out the last letter) and 2 results come up where the word is in the title. I complete the search word with “research” and suddenly I get 8 results where the word is also within the content.
I can’t reproduce the original issue either.
The second one seems to be a separate issue, and most likely connected to what @krst mentioned. It also only seems to happen in outside of the global search.
Global search:
@mention:
Do you mind writing a separate bug report if we don’t have one for this already?
I think this issue is related:
Not sure if there is a need to create a new one.
But editing an object does not fix the index issue for me.
Overall the global search is not working well for me. It is very unreliable. Much so that I don’t trust it.
In version 0.43.7 the issue still exists.
Example: Image named “Gaszählerstand.jpg”
Input: “Gasz” - “Gaszählerstand” does not appear in the selection list
Input: “Gaszä” - “Gaszählerstand” appears in the selection list
Input: “Gaszäh” - “Gaszählerstand” does not appear in the selection list
I suggest to continue here as this issue moved to the Bug Cemetery.
Regardless of whether @krst links that bug report to another thread or not, I simply think that search is a very basic function for absolutely any comparable software, and if there are any problems, a solution should have top priority and not be delayed by ever new comments and questions and further requests.
Dear Anytype Team, the version I’m using is 0.43.7, that version you provided just some day ago. It sould be easy to set the language of a macOS test app to “German”, create corresponding test images with umlauts in the file name as shown and test it yourself until no further bugs occur. There is no need for further questions, screenshots etc., everyone should be able to reproduce the problem described easily.
I really don’t think it has anything to do with Umlauts. The same happens to me with other random words, too.
Yes, all the worse. I don’t understand why bugs in the search function don’t have top priority for developers, but seem to be treated more like a kind of nice-to-have, put on the back of the queue.
We are working right now on improving the prefix query search. Tantivy doesn’t use it by default, so this looks clunky, sorry guys. Should be shipped in the upcoming December release
In this case, the query “the dairy” matches two documents, namely “The Diary of Muadib” and “The Diary of a Young Girl.”
but will “th”, “the d”, “diar”, “the dia”, “the diar” also find the same things as in the example is the question 
I also would like to point out that I have the most issues when the search phrase is in the content area. Title search seems to be more robust (while also not accurate all the time).
I want to add that I’m mainly searching for files/objects, so my experiences mainly relate to the search for object names. At the moment, I don’t even dare to search in content since finding object names is already problematic and unreliable.
Yep, I endure the same… nightmare.
The issue seems to have been fixed as of version 0.43.38-beta!
not for me. I try to find something with persönlich
persönl
does not find anything
persönli
finds a bunch of things containing personal, person and so on, but nothing with persönlich
persönlic
again doesn’t find anything
persönlich
suddenly finds the words persönlich and persönlicher
partially.
with persönl I have 6 entries without highlighted words in the content
with persönli I have 26 entries that highlights things like person or personalize but also lists others where it contains Personen without highlights. The word I search for is persönlich and it does not get highlighted also here.
when I reach persönlic (just a c added) it is again the same as with persönl - no highlights, and 6 entries
then when I reach persönlich (just added the h) it finds again 6 but highlights everything with persönlich properly.
the final entries I search for (with persönlich) seem to be in there all the time. but the result count and the highlights are often very different.
I guess the current logic is: it is not highlighted in a huge list, the exact (partial) phrase could be in there.
another example
wordpres
finds 23 entries without any highlights in the content area and 3 that have the tag Wordpress.
Funny thing: The entry “Wordpress Snippets” that also has the tag “wordpress” gets shown without the tag.
wordpress
also finds 23 entries but now with the words in the content highlighted and 4 with the tag wordpress
Funny thing: The entry “Wordpress Snippets” that also has the tag “wordpress” does now get shown with the tag.
edit and weird after doing it a few times the object with the tag that got shown with “wordpress” now also gets properly shown with “wordpres”. perhaps a reindexing happened?
Actually I’m not quite sure how Anytype’s search is intended to work by design. Should this be a Full Text Search, where every occurrence of even parts of a string within the content of any object is displayed as search results? Or is it just about string occurrences in names of objects?