User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-188432-20120512125751

I don't think the search results is handling special characters and/or symbols properly. For instance, we have a page called tardis:Siân Elin Palfrey. But when this page is displayed in the search results, it comes across as SiÃ¢n Elin Palfrey.

It is important that we get this issue resolved. Doctor Who is produced in Wales these days, and the proper display of the â character, as well as some other Welsh "peculiarities", is vital.

We also seem to be having some problems with umlauts. It's tardis:Rob Störr, but the search results give us Rob StÃ¶rr. Given the fact that European actors and crew can now be easily employed by the BBC, we've got a number of these cases, too. I wish I could provide a comprehensive list of errors for you, but I'm not quite sure how to run a report that would look for special symbols in titles. I note, however, that not all symbols are displaying incorrectly. The æ character (as in tardis:The Dæmons) is behaving itself nicely, as is é (tardis:Honoré Lechasseur).