Adèle vs Adele. The last one is easy to search for, and you don’t need to know how to make the accent on top of the character to do it, but it returns absolutely nothing. Maybe make the è searchable under e? As O is for Ø.
I think the search does work like that. Searching Adele does bring up various Adèle as well
https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=Adele+&type=artist&limit=25&method=indexed
OK, I got absolutely nothing. Even redid it in advanced search.
Searching is not done by Picard but rather by Musicbrainz.
See this recent thread for a similar issue, and bug diagnosis.
As far as I know Adele has never called herself Adèle, however I have added this as a search hint (since a French speaker might spell it this way if they didn’t know better), so when the bugs identified in the other thread are fixed, this should work in Picard.
I stand corrected - there is a difference between aliases and diacritics. More research needed.
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@IvanDobsky Ivan
The URL you have shown is a normal web search. Picard uses the Indexed Search instead and as per Metatag not properly recognised this does not use the alias table when searching.
I suspect that this is the search that Picard will use:
https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=artist%3A%28Ad%C3%A8le%29+&type=artist&limit=25&method=advanced
and this does return Adele.
When you say you search for Adèle in Picard, what exactly are the steps you are doing?
(Screen shots will help.)
I just did a quick search to see what was picked up on the website. My copy of Picard 2.12 gave the exact same results from using the search box in Picard.
I was fairly certain that search did ignore the accents in a search and wanted to check. Didn’t think aliases needed to be setup for every option.
Searching for Adèle - MusicBrainz does not require you to type the “è” correctly. You can type a lazy “e” instead and search handles it.
It works as a charm now.
The point was that “Adèle” with an accent didn’t work, whereas “Adele” without an accent did work.
And the artist Adele spells her name without an accent.
Isn’t lucene supposed to be able to handle accented searches, so this should work even without aliases being searched or an explicit alias existing?