Global search does not find short decimal numbers ("0.01") as they are not recognized as a single word
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: daniel.lusk, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0
Steps to reproduce:
Search for the string "0.01" in global search, when I know that I have an email with the subject "Re: 0.01 degree correlations" in the search list.
Actual results:
No results: "No messages match your search"
Expected results:
Emails containing "0.01" should be returned. Searching for "degree", for example, returns the aforementioned email in results.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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Your bug summary is not quite correct. In principle, searching by number does work. For example, 123 is found without any problems.
However, the "global search" is an index-based text search that only covers words with three or more letters. It recognizes "0.01" as two words with a full stop in between. These are therefore not indexed.
Perhaps this can be corrected. I'll change the summary accordingly.
I hope it is in your interest. But I don't see any other way to solve the problem.
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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Alfred is correct. This is a result of the tokenizer set to 3 characters or more, which is bug 1134629. This won't change any time soon - though you likely could get a working version at two characters by changing the source code and compiling your own executable.
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