I forgot to mention, I know some popular artists with non-Latin-alphabet names have “search hint” aliases for the common 文字化け encoding error versions on their names. I attempted to add “½Ð¸ò§Ú¨Ó” and “¤pè” aliases to that album and that artist respectively… and then I tried to search for “½Ð¸ò§Ú¨Ó” and “¤pè”, and it didn’t work. By “didn’t work” I mean it was zero results with a direct search, and 300,000 random results using an indirect search with and without search operators.
So, I tried turning the aliases from a “Search Hint” into a regular alias, but without setting a type or locale. Once again… these strings are not found when searched for.
So… I should probably just make a new topic about this topic, but…
- Should popular misencodings of popular names be stored as aliases?
- Should the Search Engine itself just do this transformation itself automatically, without a human editor needing to manually add each individual aliases to individual database objects?
- If a human is adding each 文字化け alias manually, individually, by hand… Should there be a new Type and Locale specifically for the 文字化け alias. (I think there really should be.)
- Why are there no results right now when you search for “½Ð¸ò§Ú¨Ó” in releases, or “¤pè” in artists?