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Query on Typesense Indexing Special Characters

TLDR JinW inquired about Typesense indexing .(period) and synonyms stripping out the period, Jason clarified that from version 0.22, Typesense can index special characters and suggested using 0.22.0.rcs39.

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Nov 26, 2021 (26 months ago)

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JinW

09:35 PM

Does Typesense index .(period)? And it seems like synonyms strip out the .

Nov 27, 2021 (26 months ago)

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Jason

12:49 AM

By default it doesn't. In v0.22 we added the ability to index special characters: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/122#issuecomment-907468036

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Jason

12:49 AM

You want to use 0.22.0.rcs39

JinW

02:13 AM

Thanks, Let me try the newer version. I’m using 0.22.0rcs24 and it index the “.” token by default.

Current Settings:
SymbolsToIndex: &[]string{"#", "+", "%"},
TokenSeparators: &[]string{":", "-"},

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