1735079 - search with apostrophe in settings doesn't return proper results

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1373286

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Mozinet]

Attachment: No result for a setting search for "barre d'adresse"

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:93.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/93.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a French Firefox.
2. Open Settings.
3. Search "barre d'adresse" (without quote marks).

Actual results:

Firefox indicates there is no result in settings for "barre d'adresse".

Expected results:

When you enter "barre d’adresse" (note the typographical apostrophe) in the settings search box, Firefox returns many results. The search for "barre d'adresse" should return the same results.

Comment 1

[Mozinet]

Attachment: results for a settings search for "barre d’adresse"

Comment 2

[Mozira]

Also search with hyphen works badly if U+2011 is used in text on web page... "Match diacritics" doesn't help.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Preferences' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 4

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

This is likely because the quotes we use are "smart quotes" and not the ASCII apostrophe. We should make the Preferences' find-in-page use similar behavior as the Find bar's "Match Diacritics" feature.

Bug 1373286 is already on file for this issue so I'll close your bug as a duplicate of that.