1746083 - It is impossible to search for text that has ruby annotations (furigana)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1699599

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Dave]

Steps to reproduce:

When searching for text that has ruby annotations attached to some words, the search mechanism treats ruby tag contents as if they were inlined.

Suppose you have this HTML:
<ruby>踊<rt>おど</rt></ruby>り<ruby>場<rt>ば</rt></ruby>にたどり着いた

It gets rendered approximately like this:
おど ば
踊 り 場 にたどり着いた

When I select "踊り場" and copy it, I get "踊り場" as plain text. But if I try to search for this very string, it can not be found. Instead, for the search engine, the above text appears as:
踊おどり場ばにたどり着いた

That is, if you search for any chunk of this, such as "場ばに", it can be found.

Actual results:

I can't find text that I copied from the same page.

Expected results:

I should be able to find "踊り場" in a page with the above HTML. I should not be able to find "場ばに". Ruby annotations are either ignored completely or searched separately.

Also, if ruby annotations are not ignored, I would expect that ruby annotations that are attached to consecutive chunks of text, are treated as one. For example, you can find that what is usually written like this:
<ruby>玄関<rt>げんかん</rt></ruby>

Sometimes is written like this:
<ruby>玄<rt>げん</rt></ruby><ruby>関<rt>かん</rt></ruby>

In both cases it makes sense to be able to find "げんかん" as single word.

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:harry, could you have a look please?

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