Problem with the search for words with hyphen about shyguy HOT 1 OPEN

Hello NatalieKH,

I'm glad to hear that my extension is useful and thanks for this tip, which I hadn't in mind before. I have thought a bit about this problem, but unfortunately there is probably no good technical solution for it that can be implemented directly in the extension. The occurrence of the soft hyphen is widely spread throughout various types of database fields, and so even the idea of using a dummy word that simply omits the special character to be found would throw up a number of unpredictable problems.

Dealing with the soft hyphen should normally be part of the searching process by handling the fuzziness in search terms, such as in faceted search or elastic search, both of which are capable of solving this problem. TYPO3's backend search is unfortunately quite rudimentary and not yet able to do this.

For the frontend this problem maybe could be solved by using the ke_search extension, which is based on faceted search and at least should theoretically be able to handle fuzziness, but I didn't tried that yet.

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