Special Character Impact on Indexing and Querying
TLDR Sergio suspects a special character may be affecting Typesense indexing and querying. Kishore Nallan requests a code snippet and advises creating an issue on GitHub.
Mar 01, 2023 (7 months ago)
Sergio
01:47 PMAlthough documentation mention that "Typesense will remove special characters", could be that this special character got through, and querying was returning empty values.
Sergio
01:47 PMSergio
01:50 PMApple TV 128GB 4K
as a string which contained some weird split between Apple and TV. (Not visible in Slack).And later querying by Apple TV the document was not being returned.
Kishore Nallan
01:55 PMSergio
02:14 PMSergio
02:15 PMSergio
02:16 PMKishore Nallan
02:16 PMSergio
02:17 PMKishore Nallan
02:19 PMTypesense
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