Handling [dash] and [single quote] by search objects

[vlad_komarov]

Hi all,

I've noticed that QV is handling two separate characters [dash --> [-] = chr(45)] and [single quote --> ['] = chr(39)] as identical string character in all search objects.

Example:

I've list of names where these characters are present:

Typing both of these chars in the search object returns the same result: QV selects both of them!

They are clearly the different characters based on the ASCII code:

But for some reason, QV treats them the same way...

Not sure that I have a reasonable explanation for that. Any comments?

The sample app is attached.

I would appreciate any comments and/or suggestions...

Regards,

Vladimir

[vlad_komarov]

Yes, looks like the same problem.

[vlad_komarov]

It took a while, but I've got a response from Qlik Support:

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According to bug# QLIK-14849 and QLIK- 15675 both describe this behavior is working as design  ( not a great design in my opinion), he is what R&D has explain about it:

"When you do global search for E and get a match on a word with É, the search suggestion will change the input line to É. The list of matches may contain words with either E or É.

Just as E and É sorts at the same position in all locales, hyphen and single quote sorts at the same position. Other punctuation sign (e.g. double quote, dot, plus) have higher and different sorting values, and these will not match each other, but hyphen and single quote happens to share search values."

I understand, hyphen and single quotes, are different character and the product should take it as different characters. For that I am going to reach the product manager team to look at this one more time, maybe (no guarantees) that we can make this better or at least documented so for future references and avoid any confusion.

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Regards,

Vladimir